#references

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#american #american people #choice #express #i

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#books #dogs #drink #even #germany

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too! ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#big #big questions #death #feel #i

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#clear #communications #critical #distraction #exaggeration

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american music #appalachian #consciously #folk #i

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#favor #governmental #i #preferences #still

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#gullible #hands #hearts #help #may

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? ↗

— Deb Caletti

#charming #dictionary #liars #magic #magicians

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ↗

— Rumi

#guidance #inclination #occupations #preferences #pull

We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#big #big problem #deal #far #form