#ration

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. ↗

— Keith Henson

#behaviour #brains #chemicals #flooding #generations

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anything #else #example #had #i

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#admiration #ahead #criticism #get #get married

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group is responsible for its continuance.... Both races need to understand that their rights and duties are mutual and equal and their interests in the common good are idential.... There is no help or healing in apparaising past responsibilities or in present apportioning of praise or blame. The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present; and an understanding of the facts of the problem--a magnanimous understanding by both races--is the first step toward its solution. ↗

— Isabel Wilkerson

#isabel-wilkerson #race #race-relations #equality

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#funny

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#any #better #care #consumers #generation

So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#australians #certainly #clearly #connecting #here

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#business #business owners #closing #entrepreneurs #failed

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#administration #all americans #benefits #cutting #guaranteed