#venti

Well we are nothing if not re-inventive. With every life experience we learn what to not do ever again and how to adapt to our current situations. We are always learning about ourselves and changing. I seriously don’t know anyone that has it all figured out, and if there is I want to punch them in the face. ↗

— Allison B. Levine

#inventive #learning #change

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out. ↗

— Niall Ferguson

#interventionism #isolationism #noninterventionism #realpolitik #sovereignty

I've just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it's great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It's so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#convention #couple #done #enjoyed #erin

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#conventions #edge #getting #greeting #i

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#away #come #convention #faith #human

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#found #good #good person #got #had

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#any #arrogance #been #claim #extraordinary

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ↗

— John McPhee

#go #inventing #letters #liked #without

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#keep #line #never #retreat #wretched

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition. ↗

— Ron Paul

#american #american tradition #another #because #might