#them

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#controlling #developed #effectively #eliminate #established

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#become #careful #choose #friends #like

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#person #responsibilities #shoulder #them #who

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#been #coin #i #interested #me

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#between #collections #deal #dissolve #distinctions

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#compulsively #longer #need #only #real

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist. ↗

— John Stossel

#else #ever #everybody #everybody else #got

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert. ↗

— John Stossel

#fight #get #hear #keeps #liberals

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't. ↗

— John Stossel

#armies #borders #country #cross #either