#rant

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#bad #bad character #blog #character #fully

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#became #father #good #i #i think

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.' ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#bent #bunch #country #democrats #especially

He found himself grinning at her. His nervousness had disappeared, and suddenly he had a sense of his own size, his physical strength, his own brains and being. Four years, he had earned his own bread and keep, fended for himself, had not only remained alive and well but had put together a small fishing fleet of his own, and kept it alive and functioning and fought the wind and the weather and met a payroll of eleven men in his crews-and be damned with the lot of them if he'd go into a funk over which spoon or knife to use. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #family

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage. ↗

— Alveda King

#continuity #destroy #generations #genocide #guarantees

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#bisexual #everyone #gay #guarantee #i

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#create #creating #creativity #digest #food

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens. ↗

— Steve King

#benefits #citizens #duty #guarantee #nation

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#better #conditions #create #government #guarantee

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#column #edited #grant #i #put