#pens

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#concept #consolations #dispense #dispensing #does

If you want someone to show up and help you if something bad happens, you'd better tell someone where you're going. And of course I wanted someone to know - but I'd made a choice and it was a choice I was going to have to live with. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#better #choice #course #going #happens

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#american taxpayers #code #complex #compliance #expensive

And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#also #country #covered #debt #future

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process. ↗

— George A. Romero

#could #dark #days #effect #expensive

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. ↗

— Rumi

#cup #disappear #fills #front #hurt

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#connect #destruction #dots #gun #happens

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#because #celibate #clergy #especially #fanaticism

I'm not looking to be dominating all the media outlets ... to talk about any issue just to be on TV, I'm not your guy. I'm not going to be 'the black Republican'. I'm going to be a Republican who happens to be black who will talk about issues that I'm passionate about that are specific to the agenda that I want to accomplish. ↗

— Tim Scott

#accomplish #agenda #any #black #dominating

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#healed #investing #other #people #start