#na

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#anonymity #anytime #anywhere #brings #connect

The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#choose #come #deadline #decision #define

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#already #been #death #estate #estate tax

I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#get #gonna #group #happening #here

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#always #comes #disparaging #extent #gilt

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#advantage #changing #common #contribute #controlling

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#spiritual #values-in-life #beauty

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment. ↗

— Curt Flood

#apart #customary #does #environment #existed

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise. ↗

— Curt Flood

#black #general #general manager #get #going

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it. ↗

— Linda Vester

#easy #get #hardened #journalist #just