#venti

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#democracy #i #i think #invention #learning

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. ↗

— Leon Kass

#cloning #interested #must #preventing #process

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#add #assume #especially #even #governed

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#bonds #bursting #convention #disruptive #either

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that. ↗

— Persis Khambatta

#before #convention #dressed #gone #hadn

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#back #bunch #certain #defend #friends

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#benefits #convention #poor #tangible #world

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#arguing #dancing #drinking #holding #inventing

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#express #forming #genius #hands #idea

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#expects #explore #go #inquiry #investigation