#gen

You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make. ↗

— Joe Biden

#attorney general #best #biggest #court #decided

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#civilization #exemption #form #government #highly

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#having #indicates #ingenious #instrument #kind

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#artist #body #concerts #despite #disapprove

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. ↗

— Steven Wright

#buy #general #i #me #specific

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public. ↗

— Mel Ferrer

#general #general public #lee #liked #musician

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#economic-collapse #environmentalism #extinction #gaede #globalization

Common sense is not so common. ↗

— Voltaire

#common #common sense #sense

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#avoid #doing #done #getting #intelligence

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#earth #generations #must #reverence #sacredness