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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ↗

— James Reston

#leaks #only #ship #state #top

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. ↗

— Harry Reid

#common #common ground #compromise #even #extremists

I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time. ↗

— Tara Reid

#girl #guy #i #like #little

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#dreams #funny #future #inspirational-quotes #life

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but many a woman hates a man for being her friend. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#humor #men-and-women-in-love #friendship

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#wonder #attitude

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#common sense #distinctions #fastidious #first #found

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#circumstances #effect #fact #fixed #influence

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#ambiguity #greater #impediment #knowledge #than

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#mind-power