#us

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#charm #divinely #each #faculties #gave

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. ↗

— John Avlon

#fear #find #follows #new #now

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. ↗

— John Avlon

#conventional #conventional wisdom #cycle #different #give

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly. ↗

— John Avlon

#into #people #politics #resentment #tap

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#duty #emotional #music #rather #regulated

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#courteous #gracious #man #shows #strangers

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#allowed #applause #been #between #culprit

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction. ↗

— David Axelrod

#bus #direction #get #going #good

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off. ↗

— David Axelrod

#better off #certainly #collapsed #hadn #i

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs. ↗

— David Axelrod

#condition #coverage #deprived #get #go