#orc

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cost #cover #divorced #economics #economists

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#divorce #itself #new #new york #virtue

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.' ↗

— Gene Wilder

#child #childish #comic #comics #derive

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. ↗

— Barry White

#find #forced #hypocrisy #i #my own

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#decide #decisions #dollar #easier #front

Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions. ↗

— Edward Witten

#along #benefit #big #depends #describe

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#change #dark #embrace #force #go

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#how #i #know #motorcycle #ride

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. ↗

— Francis Wright

#actions #belief #consequences #deduce #first

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#because #come #come and go #could #depression