#nate

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. ↗

— Victor Borge

#caught #cure #died #disease #father

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#been #describe #dominated #equations #exact

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#cliches #hollywood #see #true #unfortunately

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. ↗

— William John Wills

#characteristics #consider #found #generally #higher

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way. ↗

— Dick York

#confused #disoriented #felt #fortunately #god

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#aged #because #been #being #compassionate

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing. ↗

— Neil Postman

#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#away #feel #fortunate #i #i feel

This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#between #brave #caught #continues #media

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#fascinated #gardens #gateway #got #i