#tended

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#both #contempt #i #known #lessen

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. ↗

— Quintilian

#creates #excellent #fault #impression #our

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#hit #home #i #living #me

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#best #brought #called #closer #consequences

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#cats #everything #function #intended #nature

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#birth #could #cry #dying #ends

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#first #get #good #pretty #pretty good

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#attended #been #bothers #half #i

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#concrete #description #details #dreamed #enables

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#chapters #clear #concerning #earth #god