#lever

You get to help people in ways that I can't even imagine. Hell, *you get to help people.* ↗

— Keith R.A. DeCandido

#nate #imagination

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons. ↗

— Criss Jami

#backwards #clever #confusion #conservatism #conservative

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else! ↗

— Scott Lynch

#rich #self-confidence #self-confidence

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings. ↗

— Scott Adams

#initiatives #key #knowledge #leverage #must

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#aware #certainly #clever #confidence #creative

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clever #company #conversation #deal #good

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. ↗

— George P. Baker

#between #clever #comedy #depends #difference

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #discern #discover #fool #man

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration

I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #under-feet-like-ours #life