#me

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#cannot #condition #consider #either #gratifying

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#anything #back #business #computer #does

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#man #part #some #world

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#home #identity #architecture

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. ↗

— Tillie Olsen

#reality #right #say #surface #women

He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#decided #department #doing #had #knew

There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#answer #besides #fact #gary #i

People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it. ↗

— Carl Olson

#american way #bad #bugs #kill #like

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? ↗

— Charles Olson

#cease #everybody #government #nuisance #will

I have come up the hard way. ↗

— Johnny Olson

#hard #hard way #i #up #way