#pen

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aside #been #does #ever #great

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#analysis #bother #does #familiar #familiar things

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dislike #given #happen #immorality #like

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#about #certain #certain extent #certainly #come

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#death #happen #more #nothing #than

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#any #change #climate #climate change #combined

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#might #pen #sad #saddest #these

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#benefits #businesses #care #compensation #costs

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#business #california #career #career politicians #done

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#actually #am #doing #encouraged #fundamentals