#pro

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#any #anybody #buy #children #church

The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#downturn #get #going #political #president

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. ↗

— Edward Teller

#clearly #fast #goes #improves #life

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#after #approval #control #convinces #cookie

If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you. ↗

— Matt Welsh

#enough #going #masochistic #program #stop

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? ↗

— William Temple

#create #creation #did #does #evil

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. ↗

— Charles Templeton

#does #fit #live #makes #problems

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress. ↗

— John Templeton

#enthusiasm #i #progress #radical #would

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. ↗

— George Tenet

#agency #any #best #came #case

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. ↗

— James Tenney

#composers #kept #musicians #people #professional