#prop

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#because #celibate #clergy #especially #fanaticism

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. ↗

— George Santayana

#belong #breed #does #free #gather

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#absolutely nothing #american #american consumer #big #consumer

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#built #easy #easy access #exchange #forget

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #men #proportion #their #wise

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#everybody #exploit #incidents #now #out

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#channel #channels #consisted #had #kgb

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. ↗

— Dean Smith

#death #every #game #going #life

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. ↗

— H. Allen Smith

#created #dedicated #i #i am #jerks

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster. ↗

— Tony Snow

#governing #proper #rule #senate #uses