#sm

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan. ↗

— John Boehner

#begin #begins #best #businesspeople #create

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#becoming #course #god #how #knows

They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny. ↗

— John Boehner

#america #bringing #combating #commitment #defeating

Pessimism never won any battle. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battle #never #pessimism #won

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty. ↗

— John Boehner

#around #business #business community #businesspeople #businessperson

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. ↗

— George Eliot

#belief #does #egoism #enters #into

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#architect #asked #beijing #breathe #certainly

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ↗

— George Eliot

#brought #done #great #great things #impulse

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ↗

— George Eliot

#chinese #else #feet #fixed #happiness

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#relativism #truth #design