#spit

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#changing #despite #emphasis #even #evil

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#advantage #after #child #child labor #despite

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#achieve #budget #clinton #despite #divided

I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#films #franchises #i #life #like

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#gains #innovation #markets #most #organizations

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#care #denying #else #embracing #get

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #cop-out #evade #evaluate #even

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#bills #christ #commune #each #easier

The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#away #disgusting #first #first kiss #girl

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#clouded #compelling #decade #despite #even