#cons

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In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.


Evelyn Underhill


#cold #constantly #coolness #could #difficult

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.


Jhonen Vasquez


#certain #certain ways #certainly #considering #damaging

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.


Thorstein Veblen


#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.


Jesse Ventura


#arms #bear #citizens #constitution #equation

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.


Joan D. Vinge


#ancient #blindly #close #comfort #conservative

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.


Henry Knox


#constitution #effect #exerted #federal #frame

They convinced our mothers that if a food item came in a bottle -- or a can or a box or a cellophane bag -- then it was somehow better for you than when it came to you free of charge via Mother Nature....An entire generation of us were introduced in our very first week to the concept that phony was better than real, that something manufactured was better than something that was right there in the room. (Later in life, this explained the popularity of the fast food breakfast burrito, neocons, Kardashians, and why we think reading this book on a tiny screen with only three minutes of battery life left is enjoyable.


Michael Moore


#breastfeeding #fast-food #neocons #food

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.


Ted Kotcheff


#battling #constantly #film #integrity #maintain

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.


Lee Krasner


#break #breaks #consistency #define #depressing

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.


Karl Kraus


#consequences #curses #fellow #fellow citizens #law