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When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#consolation #different #different perspective #float #manage

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#blow #brains #criminals #crook #crooks

When you love someone, you treat them well. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#someone #them #treat #well #you

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#arbiter #believe #court #federal #final

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#continue #costly #dependence #energy #energy sources

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#achilles heel #dependence #diplomacy #economic #energy

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#always #been #believed #benefits #box

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#apple #apple pie #bar #came #girl

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#basically #damn #had #happened #i