#th

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards. ↗

— Joe Pass

#hit #make #note #play #right

We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#bench #constitution #given #his #interpret

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#anything #defense #exist #finished #heard

Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#aware #baby #because #been #child

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#communication #digital #disadvantage #everything #expect

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks. ↗

— George Pataki

#attacks #bureaus #coordinating #ears #effort

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . . ↗

— Terri Windling

#folktales #inspirational #myth #old-tales #power-of-story

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#consequences #consists #fact #having #importance

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#any #becomes #closed #derived #each

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing