#mit

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#black #except #extremity #flight #geese

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#baseball #deeply #fan #fathers #rooted

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#any #collapse #difficulty #even #great

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#form #imitation #namely #opposite #something

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#certain #certain things #collage #committed #dots

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#best #care #destroy #government #health

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#advocating #am #committed #crimes #having

Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#himself #his #mate #mitt #mitt romney

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#america #between #brighter #commitment #contrast

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#amount #course #fix #increases #medicare