#tan

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#aspect #beautiful #being #consideration #family

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#back #constant #hovers #into #past

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#answers #appreciated #best #commission #could

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#focus #important #mysteries #nature #problems

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#hate #i #me #people #try

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. ↗

— Eminem

#almost #bars #beat #comes #eight

The heart of standing is you cannot fly. ↗

— William Empson

#fly #heart #standing #you

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#constitution #highest #important #preventing #right

We stand with the people of Taiwan and their democratic ways, and I am proud to be a part of reaffirming the unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act by the United States Congress. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#am #commitment #congress #democratic #i