#use

The second mouse gets the cheese!" - The Inimitable Terry Pratchett ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mouse #proverb #retort #education

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#democracy #every #filibuster #laws #most

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#background #cane #cut #forebears #i

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#causes #charity #donations #giving #holidays

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. ↗

— Criss Jami

#business #businesses #careers #college #decisions

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is. ↗

— John Piper

#christ #christianity #god #kindness #life

I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#broad-based #constitutional #context #court #determine

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#constitution #depends #everything #laws #life

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#applause #encores #had #happiness #i

When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#i #lose #used #would #younger