#mer

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american life #background #journalism #life #noise

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#america #europe #everyone #god #grown-up

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#america #before #believe #better #culture

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. ↗

— David Antin

#common #george #gives #i #i think

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#concepts #homer #living #man #moon

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#almost #america #any #captured #considered

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#also #bestows #completeness #death #ends

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#black #blood #cannot #colombia #die

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

#chiefly #homer #lies #other #poets