#text

Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#challenges #context #country #domestic #face

Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate courtesy toward all creatures, animate and inanimate. It is sympathy that most appropriately enlarges the context of human work. Contexts become wrong by being too small - too small, that is, to contain the scientist or the farmer or the farm family or the local ecosystem or the local community - and this is crucial. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#community #context #husbandry #family

Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#author #book #happiness #inspirational #life

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#justification #mistakes #pretexts #humor

I sent a quick text to Adrian: I have a hickey! You can’t ever kiss me again. I honestly hadn’t expected him to be awake this early, so I was surprised to get a response: Okay. I won’t kiss you on your neck again. So typical of him. No! You can’t ever kiss me ANYWHERE. You said you were going to keep your distance. I’m trying, he wrote back. But you won’t keep your distance from me. I didn’t dignify that with a response. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#aftermath #freaking-out #hickey #humor #kisses

Cellaholics are those who interrupt quality time when they are with you, but rather text, call, and email others who are somewhere else. ↗

— Jayce O'Neal

#drjayce #email #humor #jayce #jayceoneal

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present. ↗

— Neil Postman

#media #television #age

She texted me telling me her mom was dying, so I did the right thing and texted her back a picture of my erect penis and said, “Let’s start a new family.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#dying #family #funny #humor #inappropriate

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#contexts #historical #legal #limited #philosophical

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#memory #men