#pens

Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. ↗

— Earl Browder

#capitalism #created #economic #economic growth #expansion

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#both #convenient #dispense #doubt #equally

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#been #discovers #doubtless #his #nature

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable. ↗

— Pat Riley

#important #indispensable #more #part #personally

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#compensates #misery #pleasure #rare #seen

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#alive #everyone #expensive #i #lawyers

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#disclose #even #happens #nothing #search

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#advertising #agencies #criticism #happens #ignorance

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them. ↗