#san

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#acceptable #acres #action #because #big

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#could #global #itself #neither #nor

Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#dependent #dollars #florida #jobs #make

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#almost #any #comes #conclusion #dangerous

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #back #come #commandments #fact

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#better #comparison #easily #fills #genuine

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#always #another #commonplaces #dictum #experience

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#buy #does #form #happiness #misery

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#beliefs #held #never #questioned #sway

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#artisans #been #being #best #creature