#ren

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas. ↗

— Paul Valery

#deprive #difficulties #him #his #ideas

Isobel moved farther into the kitchen, not knowing whether to be relieved that her mother hadn't had an atomic meltdown, or mortified that she'd taken it upon herself to play head chef with the nearest thing Trenton High had to a Dark Lord. ↗

— Kelly Creagh

#isobel #nevermore #varen #funny

I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#breathe #cords #differently #good #had

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#lives #made #marines #people #problem

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#economic #intertwined #makes #obligations #reference

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#committed #gives #greatest #hard #i

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#activity #currently #does #energy #fossil

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#moral #participants #system #themselves

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#each #everyone #find #individual #manner