#tru

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#center #clinton #coming #created #filtering

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#both #distressing #frequency #idols #literature

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#against #come #developed #did #economy

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#conviction #ethics #personal #science #truth

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. ↗

— Mira Nair

#life #more #peculiar #place #really

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#called #death #die #how #knew

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#free #free lunch #lunch #must #truth

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#been #i #long #me #mistrust

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#chief #forward #him #must #party

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future. ↗

— Joseph Needham

#ecological #equilibrium #future #hierarchy #idea