#wit

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#animal #any #blood #demonstrate #digestion

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#could #everything #fellow #fellow citizens #happen

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#easiest #existence #harmonious #inner #inner peace

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#beaten #could #crack #definitely #generally

When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#arizona #balk #civil #civil rights #claim

No collection without compensation. ↗

— Jeff Rich

#compensation #without

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#any #chaos #existence #generality #indeed

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#basis #build #coalition #doctrine #embraced

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#artist #could #day #economy #health

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#country #france #left #occupied #right