#nsa

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#bringing #conditions #hard #human #human personality

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #arya #feast #funny #george-r-r-martin

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#benjamin #cohen #com #come #could

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane. ↗

— Randy Cohen

#fan #great #great thing #huge #i

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#insane #insane people #many #mentally #people

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#estimation #magnitude #measure #method #provided

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#anything #come #disagree #find #get

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#anything #indispensable #meetings #want #you

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#insanity #logic #mind #often

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#am #clinical #definition #different #expect