#vent

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#been #convention #democratic #getting #had

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#business #customers #determine #even #example

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#days #fact #festival #god #having

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantages #devil #disagreeable #distance #his

Doubt is the father of invention. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#father #invention

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#convenient #deity #drunk #excuse #getting

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#idleness #leisure #meditate #place #retirement

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#character #conventional #down #down the road #part

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#lie #like #ourselves #say #ten