#position

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#ancient #ancient greeks #composition #greeks #mind

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#bush #came #display #even #him

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#dangerous #does #even #fixing #idea

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#color #explain #object #perception #position

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#book #country #down #experiment #here

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#am #become #carter #extinct #fail

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#become #business #opposition #washington

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else. ↗

— Karl Rove

#else #go #know #politics #position

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#labor movement #lectures #make #movement #nicely

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#does #fools #get #however #into