#rates

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back. ↗

— Les Aspin

#autonomy #back #certain #comfortable #feel

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#ear #facility #great #great music #leaves

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. ↗

— Marvin Bower

#business #confidence #decisively #do the right thing #drive

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. ↗

— William James

#god #grace #miraculously #operates #probably

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#been #cuts #generations #lowest #marginal

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #meaning-of-life #plato #socrates #unexamined-life

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#committed #how #i #i am #improve

What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just to be ironic? I suspect that act was actually the result of his secret embarrassment of his hideous nose. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#irony #law #noses #socrates #death

Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life. ↗

— John Gray

#greek-mythology #morality #socrates #the-death-of-tragedy #tragedy

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#reading #wonder #dreams