#stands

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#burn #destroy #else #ever #flag

I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#awesome #awesome responsibility #branches #confirmed #constitution

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#because #center #dangerous #job #making

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. ↗

— John Ruskin

#higher #him #man #more #stands

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cities #dome #hills #him #little

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#actions #almost #america #authority #aware

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#believe #everyone #everything #happens #i

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#fathers #killing #left #means #mothers

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#firm #happens #history #rests #something

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. ↗

— John Searle

#argue #car #computer #exactly #i