#ration

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#aspiration #been #chicago #city #even

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program. ↗

— Kit Bond

#designed #enabled #interrupted #made #major

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#expression #ideas #inspiration #instinctively #may

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#architecture #basis #enemy #necessary #rationalism

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things? ↗

— Robin McKinley

#inspirational #inspirational

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#citizen #confidently #direction #does #fear

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #just #law #mechanic #organic

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration. ↗

— Julius Erving

#celebration #downs #family #great #had

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse. ↗

— Julius Erving

#effort #else #faced #find #going