#well

To seek the highest good is to live well. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#highest #live #seek #well

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#i #i do #mean #never #people

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. ↗

— Julie Powell

#inspirational #julie-julia #julie-powell #inspirational

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the Palestinian formations. I remember Edward once surprising me by saying, and apropos of nothing: 'Do you know something I have never done in my political career? I have never publicly criticized the Soviet Union. It’s not that I terribly sympathize with them or anything—it's just that the Soviets have never done anything to harm me, or us.' At the time I thought this a rather naïve statement, even perhaps a slightly contemptible one, but by then I had been in parts of the Middle East where it could come as a blessed relief to meet a consecrated Moscow-line atheist-dogmatist, if only for the comparatively rational humanism that he evinced amid so much religious barking and mania. It was only later to occur to me that Edward's pronounced dislike of George Orwell was something to which I ought to have paid more attention. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#communism #dflp #dogmatism #edward-said #humanism

However, this court is constrained by law, and under the law, I can only conclude that the Government has not violated FOIA by refusing to turn over the documents sought in the FOIA requests, and so cannot be compelled by this court of law to explain in detail the reasons why its actions do not violate the Constitution and the laws of the United States. The Alice-in-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me; but after careful and extensive consideration, I find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraints and rules—a veritable Catch-22. I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the Executive Branch of our Government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws, while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret. ↗

— Colleen McMahon

#law #national-security #orwellian #surveillance #surveillance-society

The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball. ↗

— James Lafferty

#basketball #brett #cast #environment #gets

Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL. ↗

— Guy Lafleur

#did #fans #forget #know #nhl

I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#actively #back #because #beings #doing

It is not well to make great changes in old age. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#changes #great #great changes #make #old

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#discussion #fascist #follow #handle #i