#ss

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#anyone #because #before #done #else

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bill #came #colleagues #cut #daily

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#called #declared #felt #i #jewish

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#control #corporate #direct #efforts #internet

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. ↗

— John Updike

#currency #elder #i #i am #i see

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#even #fixed #free #generation #infinitely

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#course #get #giving #graduate #impress

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ↗

— John Updike

#get #ignore #jobs #life #nothingness

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#arise #choice #decision #human #loss

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings. ↗