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It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#budget #care #congressman #crafting #deal

Men create the gods in their own image. ↗

— Xenophanes

#gods #image #men #own #their

Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head. ↗

— Henry Mosquera

#black-ops #conspiracy #espionage #global #hackers

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#assembly-line #dejan-stojanovic #final #literature #literature-quotes

Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent. ↗

— Melissa Jensen

#melissa-jensen #the-fine-are-of-truth-or-dare #art

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#inspirational #life-and-death #art

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#procrastination #resistance #art

Lying is an art, if you can convince yourself with lie, then you are a master. ↗

— Nikhil Yadav

#master #philosophy #art

Mathematics is the music of reason. To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be alive, damn it. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#art

A company could use bricks to measure their growth rate. How many bricks have angry investors thrown at you lately? If the answer is none, then your growth rate is probably pretty good… for the moment. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #finance #finance-humor