#diction

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#dictionary #look #news #tv #up

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically. ↗

— Ron Kind

#dependence #done #economically #foreign #foreign oil

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#break #contradictions #difficulties #encounter #gentleness

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#challenges #commandments #congress #courts #federal

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#citizens #citizenship #consent #defines #express

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions. ↗

— Nate Silver

#associate #capital #correlate #expertise #good

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance. ↗

— Nate Silver

#answer #extent #find #know #making

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#catholic church #church #depiction #meant #meant to be

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#love #love-addiction #women #humor