#red

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. ↗

— Avicenna

#all things #anything #causes #complete #knowledge

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. ↗

— John Avlon

#american people #anger #canned #gotten #people

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States. ↗

— David Axelrod

#barack #barack obama #before #elected #election

I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds. ↗

— Scott Baio

#best #both #break #call #comedy

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. ↗

— Thomas Becket

#christ #crown #effort #ever #faith

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. ↗

— Paul Berg

#career #considered #deciding #get #had

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. ↗

— Julian Bond

#entered #into #legal #passed #period

I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#another #answered #confused #i #i am

We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan. ↗

— Shaukat Aziz

#blankets #housing #need #pakistan #repair