#sca

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones. ↗

— Kanye West

#also #boring #even #first #i

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. ↗

— Mae West

#discarded #else #given #lovers #second

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit. ↗

— Edmund White

#crying #ecological #empty #even #far

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#cure #done #haven #i #i think

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues. ↗

— Jack White

#blew #blues #cream #dabbled #discard

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation. ↗

— Billy West

#before #cause #chance #die #during

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#aggressively #because #better #challenges #day

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#austerity #better #doing #fiscal #markets

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#barrels #changing #claim #depreciation #existing

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#forgiveness #immorality #redemption #religion #responsibility