#venti

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

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

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

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. ↗

— Larry Wall

#bad idea #given #i #i think #idea

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#date #easily #end #invention #man

I was always inventing characters and making up stories. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#characters #i #inventing #making #making up

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. ↗

— Michael Graves

#did #i #i see #invention #moral

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did. ↗

— Otto Hahn

#did #disregarding #english #first #hague

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#conventional wisdom #everything #filter #just #left

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#being #better #breast cancer #cancer #days