#pa

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it. ↗

— Julius Erving

#ball #both #chance #change #committed

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#conception #create #fact #future #just

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. ↗

— Robert Bork

#apparent #became #cannot #child #enlightenment

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#becoming #cereal #change #countries #evident

Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties. ↗

— Levi Eshkol

#four #parties #political #political parties #put

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly. ↗

— Anna Eshoo

#country #drill #folly #i #i think

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. ↗

— Max Born

#dice #differential #equations #fair #god

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. ↗

— George Borrow

#been #dreary #escape #idleness #itself

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. ↗

— George Borrow

#best #country #crime #god #love

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#believe #both #canon #chase #child