#taken

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues. ↗

— Tony Snow

#best #exercised #issues #learn #people

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#appetites #automatic #bring #control #debating

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#crime #despicable #did #does #excuse

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#comic relief #data #i #i think #mistaken

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#first #flattery #more #none #proud

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#been #between #churches #country #difference

I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#criticisms #extreme #extremist #got #i

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#optimism #out #post-modernism #taken

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had. ↗

— William Adams

#back #clothes #had #i #me

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#convinced #doom #i #i am #prophets