#seem

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#activities #choices #inert #often #practice

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#assemblies #assembly #debates #democratic #dragged

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#come #efficient #engines #i #like

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#been #benevolence #both #difference #enormous

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#care #defence #essential #few #function

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#black #elite #empowerment #majority #recycled

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#different #get #how #i #just

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#cure #education #formal #formal education #fortifies

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#i #lincoln #man #no problem #problem