#us

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#cemetery #gallery #i #living #metropolitan

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way. ↗

— Erik Larson

#foul #got #his #hitler #just

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#economic #elusive #environment #improve #iraq

If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning? ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #the-same #this-business-of-art

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#i #look #married #me #one thing

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it. ↗

— Steve Largent

#consumer #demand #respond #shaping

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f ↗

— Gary Hamel

#paradox #strategy #business

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#conflict #course #debate #deep #gave

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph. ↗

— James Larkin

#cast #creatures #enlarged #got #horrid

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#am #committee #community #congress #first