#ann

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#children #come #education #enough #how

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bury #cannot #comes #construe #cunning

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#cannot #conquer #duty #fear #first

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#afford #allow #black #cannot #children

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#had #i #kids #manage #nanny

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#cannot #clear #comedian #cut #either

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#cannot #himself #man #marble #remake

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. ↗

— Peter Fenn

#congress #filed #filibuster #first #had

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#i #make #me #okay #regular