#ola

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#back #biologists #centuries #going #human

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. ↗

— Helen Prejean

#citizens #compromises #conceived #country #deepest

So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full. ↗

— John Prescott

#anything #around #chips #chocolate #did

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#concept #consolations #dispense #dispensing #does

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. ↗

— William Drummond

#scholar #sharpens

When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities. ↗

— Agnieszka Radwanska

#always #coming #courts #even #facilities

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#i #lame #member #political #political science

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#academy #almost #come #could #discovered

Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#body #change #chocolate #food #fuel

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression. ↗

— Harry Reid

#comfort #depression #give #hurting #i