#the

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#constant #cults #go #history #into

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#challenging #extremely #four #i #i can

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. ↗

— John Doerr

#better #big #big deal #bugs #chain

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#elevate #fall #like #people #real

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#always #capital #committee #compensation #economy

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#being #dad #go #goes #great

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#age #doing #had #home #i

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— John Dingell

#amendment rights #catch #change #citizens #criminals

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. ↗

— John Dingell

#books #burning #destruction #ever #having

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. ↗

— David Dinkins

#fact #finished #had #i #law