#nsa

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american #american people #been #caused #clean

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. ↗

— Richard Whately

#close #human #judgment #law #most

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#benefits #businesses #care #compensation #costs

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#insane #matters #opinion #our

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on. ↗

— Serena Williams

#i #i can #i feel #improve #insatiable

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible. ↗

— Chely Wright

#being #believe #born #city #everything

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#considered #elements #feelings #large #naturally

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #between #ideas #investigation #mediator

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#band #bands #being #best #conversations