#wit

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#government #may #needs #political #president

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. ↗

— Thomas Tryon

#foods #oppression #procured #refrain #such

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ↗

— Alan Turing

#altered #believe #century #contradicted #educated

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie. ↗

— Ike Turner

#comeback #god #group #i #like

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#before #ideas #marriage #perceived #relation

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. ↗

— Mark Udall

#deeply #deny #despite #documentation #holocaust

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#been #capital #established #even #features

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ↗

— John Updike

#dreams #incite #nature #possibility #them

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#good #good way #having #offer #people

I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife. ↗

— Karl Urban

#could #effectively #i #i do #support