#vent

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits. ↗

— Allen Klein

#being #constantly #dealing #death #down

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do. ↗

— Joe Klein

#anything #between #histories #i #invented

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#america #exporting #inventing #making #now

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#alexandria #alphabet #although #burnt #certain

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#everyday #human #human relations #intervention #none

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#capacity #empathize #enables #envision #experiences

Death is just life's next big adventure. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#big #big adventure #death #just #life

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#anymore #been #better #cases #copies