#tract

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#ask #back #bored #contract #could

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#distractions #great #i #lot #outside

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. ↗

— Ang Lee

#american #attracts #because #desert #drama

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him. ↗

— Donna Leon

#decides #does #far #find #gone

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#destroy #himself #interests #other #person

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #delight #demonstrates #having #leads

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#contract #first #first principle #legitimate #only

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗