#oft

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#car #content #could #days #due

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#family #formidable #friends #friends and family #full

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#because #extended #extended family #fabric #family

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#hands #hold #like #long #move

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#between #contempt #flattery #flows #often

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#ballast #enthusiasms #like #mental #often

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#budget #done #often #policy #putting

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ↗

— Henry Adams

#breeds #chaos #habit #life #often

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#disapprove #having #how #i #important

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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