#ene

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#disturbing #gentleness #great #means #refinement

Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#american public #been #challenger #convince #inclined

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space. ↗

— Walter Lang

#created #earth #elements #evolution #insignificant

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees. ↗

— James Lind

#had #knees #spots #their #weakness

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#conservative #crime #fact #generation #genre

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#been #benefits #captured #counterparts #disparity

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#christian #enemy #established #i #know

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#extremely #frightened #painfully #shows #you

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character. ↗

— Marguerite Moreau

#character #energy #freedom #gave #go

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#affairs #awareness #everyday #important #intellectual