#pro

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#better understood #by-product #debate #information #precondition

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#get #knowledge #observer #preferably #provides

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#because #believe #between #bush #i

We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#airways #also #better #better quality #constituents

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#creation #economic #economic prosperity #half #job

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#expressing #find #i #i always #improve

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#community #daily #effect #encourage #held

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part. ↗

— Joe Lando

#down #good #good chance #i #more