#tell

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#i #just #longer #problems #smart

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#almost #also #comprehension #develop #find

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#fiction #how #i #itself #judgmental

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#back #begin #first #first of all #go

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#constituents #continue #end #enjoy #ensure

I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit. ↗

— John Engler

#go #going #i #kept #stay

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#community #concerns #current #efforts #i

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#allow #created #governed #insect #laws

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. ↗

— Dave Davies

#like #make #me #people #songs