#mit

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#believe #good #holders #just #monopoly

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#most #only #out #permit #prayer

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#defined #imitation #imperfect #insight #literature

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#differentiate #expert #felt #formulated #hardly

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#battleground #because #being #boost #changing

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#common #defense #deployment #development #duties

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#audience #been #burnett #carol #carol burnett

Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#campaign #church #closely #critics #decidedly

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers. ↗

— Benjamin Lincoln

#brothers #like #limitless #must #number

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#communication #determined #form #hampered #inevitable