#rin

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#close #club #come #could #cynicism

I've been drinking and using since I was 13. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#drinking #i #since #using

If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american citizens #angry #blame #citizens #comparing

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#brave #business #conduct #conscience #death

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#cannot #discover #every #fixed #governed

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#also #condition #conducive #environment #fiscal

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#back #bring #easier #further #go

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#could #guess #had #i #unconventional

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#find #mountains #only #tops #up

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ends #engineering #physical #piecemeal #province