#there

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#achieved #american #contract #crazy #entitled

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#advantage #allow #change #embrace #enjoy

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#being there #best #crowd #faces #hearing

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#cripples #mind #offense #regarded #should

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#cogito-ergo-sum #existence #existentialism #god #humanity

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#democracy #east #i #i do #itself

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#begging #obtained #putting #question #real

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#cannot #carry #concrete #demands #everyone

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#best #business #carrying #considering #execution