#pro

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#decision #individual #join #left #money

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#believer #continue #detection #early #encourage

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#bolts #i #nuts #procedure #streets

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evaluate #everybody #fact #intellectual #italy

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#disappear #i #know #me #promise

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#attention #audience #because #book #capture

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners. ↗

— Don Bluth

#also #clean #design #game #graphics

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#found #into #mind #nature #progressed

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asylum #cared #convinced #creatures #desire