#ra

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. ↗

— John Dingell

#books #burning #destruction #ever #having

Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one. ↗

— John Dingell

#cap-and-trade #country #great #nobody #realizes

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are. ↗

— John Dingell

#american people #carefully #democratic #democratic party #look

I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#women-s-liberation #women-s-strength #beauty

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups. ↗

— John Dingell

#also #both #both sides #capitol #control

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance. ↗

— Diogenes

#fact #i #ignorance #know #nothing

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#geographical #intensified #jobs #marriage #mobility

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. ↗

— Diogenes

#anything #because #called #dog #fawn

The mob is the mother of tyrants. ↗