#mit

Sophistication is upscale conformity. ↗

— James Richardson

#conformity

Ah, those two. In a fight, they’re lethal. Around each other, they melt. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #rose

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. ↗

— Josh Billings

#committed #easier #intend #much #repent

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#china #committee #finding #labs #research

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. ↗

— Athanasius

#imitate #life #mind #possibly #pure

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. ↗

— Bjork

#any #bore #death #feminists #follow

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. ↗

— Josh Billings

#airs #best #cures #man #never

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#am #beyond #case #far #goes