#thro

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#apostles #beings #claimed #explanation #havoc

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#been #condemn #drive #history #men

Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in. ↗

— Keri Russell

#bit #colorado #everything #experience #few

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#available #communications #everything #fast #feel

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#easily #hard #i #i can #i write

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? ↗

— Paul Ryan

#class #class warfare #economic #economic stagnation #go

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#american idea #any #designed #done #economic

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#attack #blame #change #country #doing

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#billions #control #debt #deficit #does

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#go #intuitive #play #shakespeare #through