#sm

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#intimate #me #novel #political #scale

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. ↗

— Edward Coke

#fault #great #small #though #yet

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#business #class #class warfare #get #growing

'A fine story', said Asterinov .... 'Six months in prison, that tale,' said Sergei. 'Was it the witch?', I asked 'I never know where the Party stands on issues of the supernatural...' ..... 'It was, - understand, I do not know for sure, I heard this at second or third hand - it was the walk through the forest. Apparently I was just too convincing in the representation of a poor man's yearning for money...' ↗

— Adam Roberts

#socialist-realism #money

To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#already #anybody #asthmatic #because #cut

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#authority #criticism #dangerous #equate #find

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

And while over-indulgence destroys the virtues, frugality destroys the stronghold of vice. ↗

— St. Neilos

#monasticism #religion #religion

There is no such thing as sportsmanship. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#such #thing