#pre

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#nothing #nowadays #once #pretext #profound

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#am #fishy #going #i #impression

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#aircraft #berlin #buildings #down #few

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#annual #dear #her #poor #preparing

America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it. ↗

— Andy Stern

#america #congress #country #deal #does

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership. ↗

— Andy Stern

#focus #i #i think #leadership #lost

I've come to appreciate other people's talents. ↗

— Howard Stern

#come #i #other #people #talents

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better. ↗

— Nicholas Stern

#creates #diet #enormous #enormous pressure #gases

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#brass #coins #current #gold #honor

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#am #belief #brought #common #common sense