#mer

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#being #beneath #buried #common #dust

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#admit #america #applies #doctrine #does

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#account #fat #fat man #him #hippopotamus

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#balance #certain #challenges #conservatives #fiscal

By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass, current for the merchandise of heaven. ↗

— John Rutledge

#doing #doing good #god #good #heaven

The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#again #america #ask #asked #been

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#care #functioning #health #health care #layer

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#america #because #bobby #campaign #care

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#charming #commercial #film #fun #funny

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#because #contemporary #every #party #polarizing