#mit

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration. ↗

— David Ricardo

#comparatively #discoveries #discovery #doubt #duration

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. ↗

— Anne Rice

#even #even now #fallen #i #i love

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that. ↗

— Mike Ross

#bill #committee #democrat #democrats #envisioned

I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#colorado #enormously #extremist #going #hurt

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#before #i #mountaintop #prior #removal

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#called #integrity #invention #may #mother

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#business #down #drilling #efficiently #ensure

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#because #belief #correct #every #ground

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#be nice #boarding #boarding school #business #country

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#between #dogmatism #limits #logic #move