#gist

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#does #evil #good #institution #magistrate

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out. ↗

— Ray Romano

#go #i #loans #money #never

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#collective #depends #education #instruments #perpetuating

I'm a registered Democrat. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#i #registered

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#deaths #fully #hear #hearts #imagined

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#assume #california #culture #dig #equipment

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#book #expected #i #other #primarily

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#end #even #fought #lives #lost

I went to a urologist - he told me I could go at any time. ↗

— Jay London

#could #go #i #me #time

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#changed #direction #discovery #elevated #ever