#nat

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comes #comics #easy #election #eroded

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#destination #hope #just #strategy

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#award #chief #chief executive #corporation #executive

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#alternative #aware #i #i think #liberalism

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #every #himself #indignation #into

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#attribute #fortunate #happy #makes #people

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cloak #drop #even #explanation #facts

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#demonstrations #discussion #experiments #i #i think

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#border #cannot #companies #complicity #enforce