#val

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. ↗

— Nate Silver

#amount #cat #collection #congress #data

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#any #change #conservative #contrast #could

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#eddie #equivalent #i #thai #will

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#asked #cannot #continued #costs #development

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#arises #calm #comes #desire #desires

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#departures #find #lay #life #more

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike. ↗

— David Mallet

#events #founded #meets #strong #true

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#campaign #convince #his #hoping #job

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. ↗

— Will Smith

#did #i #learn #me #most

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie. ↗