#rant

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security. ↗

— Mike Ross

#departments #fema #fire #flexibility #grant

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#been #enlightenment #free #ignorance #salvation

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#corn #gene #herbicides #kill #makes

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. ↗

— Pat Riley

#guarantees #lose #loss #permission #yourself

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant. ↗

— Alexandra Ripley

#books #cereal #deodorant #like #perfume

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects. ↗

— George Ripley

#attaining #besides #desired #effects #foolish

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#head #how #i #i think #instinctive

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#big #buses #business #buying #development

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#granted #here #i #i feel #i feel like

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#freedom #ignorant #keeping #lies #people