#ow

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral. ↗

— Epictetus

#immoral #lies #lying #show #tell

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy. ↗

— Kit Bond

#back #come #comes #current #current law

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ↗

— Epicurus

#among #desiring #hoped #now #once

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ↗

— Epicurus

#folly #gods #himself #man #obtain

The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations in defense of him because I know how Bobby Blake really is, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no murder in his heart. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#back #because #blake #bobby #concerned

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#easy #fact #flow #interfering #keep

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#how #inner #inner world #knowledge #my self

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? ↗

— Franz Kafka

#exist #how #i #shall #tomorrow

Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie. ↗

— Mike Epps

#black #come #dying #every #feel

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes. ↗

— Mike Epps

#earth #everybody #i #i think #jokes