#vent

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#conventions #geneva #ghraib #happened #human

Dictators never invent their own opportunities. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#invent #never #opportunities #own #their

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#designer #economist #emerging #evolutionary #inventor

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#conventional #conventional way #doing #fresh #just

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#around #comes #i #invent #invented

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#agreed #boarding #both #dozens #engaging

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conventional wisdom #enemy #events #ideas #march

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ashes #be true #dust #endure #facts

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#constantly #done #enjoy #feel #feel good

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#eventually #get #leotards #looking #out