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I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant. ↗

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. ↗

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#days #depth #fear #gives #granted

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#approximations #certainly #closer #discoverable #generous

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ↗

— Voltaire

#before #destroying #laws #shade #slight

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#almighty god #comes #down #equal #every

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens. ↗

— Thomas Vilsack

#care #citizens #complete #duty #ensure

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#between #eat #fair #five #folks

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. ↗

— Voltaire

#christian #christians #course #inspire #intolerant

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #punished #tyrants