#wi

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#difficult #effort #find #instincts #many

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind. ↗

— George W. Bush

#american people #believe #cause #change #criticize

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#differentiate #expert #felt #formulated #hardly

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#faults #feel #grow #instrument #judge

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#audience #been #burnett #carol #carol burnett

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#around #blood #fashion #growing #growing up

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#both #done #experience #get #good

Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#any #campaign #concerns #diminishing #mccain

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees. ↗

— Gordon Lightfoot

#being #degrees #doubt #i #inexorably

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#brothers #christ #god #help #helping