#psi

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#clearly #collapsing #conservative #conservative party #different

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. ↗

— Tori Amos

#before #could #down #everything #feeling

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.' ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#crews #did #family #film #filmmakers

No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who's been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow is greater right now. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#been #both #disrespect #greater #i

Live Aid turned our world upside down. ↗

— John Deacon

#down #live #our #our world #turned

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside. ↗

— Julius Erving

#deal #downside #good #got #know

You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#down #look #really #shook #truly

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same. ↗

— Billy Graham

#been #down #followed #generation #had

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#down #haven #heard #much #ordinary

Weight Watchers holds as a descriptive axiom the transparently true fact that for each of us the universe is deeply and sharply and completely divided into for example in my case, me, on one side, and everything else, on the other. This for each of us exhaustively defines the whole universe... And then they hold by a prescriptive axiom the undoubtedly equally true and inarguable fact that we each ought to desire our own universe to be as full as possible, that the Great Horror consists in an empty, rattling personal universe, one where one finds oneself with Self, on one hand, and vastly empty lonely spaces before Others begin to enter the picture at all, on the other. A non-full universe... The emptier one’s universe is, the worse it is... Weight Watchers perceives the problem as one involving the need to have as much Other around as possible, so that the relation is one of minimum Self to maximum Other... We each need a full universe. Weight Watchers and their allies would have us systematically decrease the Self-component of the universe, so that the great Other-set will be physically attracted to the now more physically attractive Self, and rush in to fill the void caused by that diminution of Self. Certainly not incorrect, but just as certainly only half of the range of valid solutions to the full-universe problem... Is my drift getting palpable? Just as in genetic engineering... There is always more than one solution... An autonomously full universe... Rather than diminishing Self to entice Other to fill our universe, we may also of course obviously choose to fill the universe with Self... Yes. I plan to grow to infinite size... There will of course eventually cease to be room for anyone else in the universe at all. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#solipsism #equality