#pre

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#amaze #best #fail #me #never

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful. ↗

— Otto Dix

#everything #i #making #obsessed #representations

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#american #american president #any #better #convinced

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#patients #present #protecting #shambles #system

They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible. ↗

— John Doerr

#drawings #expressions #family #found #gain

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#aggressive #back #care #cruel #domestic

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#away #down #drag #forget #havoc

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down. ↗

— Jimmy Doolittle

#down #fight #instead #neck #prepared

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... [a man] may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#oppression #freedom

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. ↗

— Alec Douglas-Home

#incomprehensible #insoluble #life #my life #ones