#verge

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#also #baby #baby boomers #boomers #country

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. ↗

— Abdullah Ibrahim

#change #converge #find #knowledge #mind

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#course #diet #eat #i #i tried

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#compatibility #continuity #creates #disjointed #divergent

The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#again #bankruptcy #crisis #manufacturing #once

A blanket could be used as a tapestry—a tapestry of love, in the Castle of Passion. This castle is coming into existence, and I'm building it brick by brick.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #divergence-test #love #age

Fear doesn't shut you down: It wake you up ↗

— Veronica Roth

#inspirational

Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#divergent #four #love #tobias #tris-prior

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#divergent #myself #rules

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#guns