#other

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#base #damage #decades #gop #higher

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#addiction #because #even #example #funny

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#life #beauty

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#business #easy #enemy #enough #friendly

Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#business

You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#bench #coaches #got #guy #i

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#demetri-martin #funny #games #helping-others #humor

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#conversation #each #effort #let us #make

If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others. ↗

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

#helping-others #mental-illness #relating #self-disclosure #suffering

إن حلول الكثير من المشكلات الخطيرة والتي لا داعي لها تكمن في تحسين قدرتنا على التفاعل من الآخرين ↗

— Lani Arredondo

#people #problems #talk #business