#provides

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#already #become #competencies #daily #daily life

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. ↗

— Mos Def

#art #articulate #good #good art #people

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#citizens #city #face #mayor #provides

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#allows #basis #exchange #information #patriot

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#nuclear power #percent #power #provides #states

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#every #hours #living #provides #relief

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#insofar #international #international law #law #legal

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#exceptions #nature #provides #rule

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#elites #europe #european #european union #impose