#remarkably

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#capable #careers #comes #courage #did

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ↗

— Michael Novak

#democracy #designed #each #institutions #noise

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake? ↗

— Yeardley Smith

#intentional #just #mistake #remarkably #sexist

I have a remarkably normal life. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#life #normal #normal life #remarkably

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#being #children #early #early age #grown-ups

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

#consensus #convictions #debated #differences #durable

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#ever #explicit #i #i think #internet

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#discerning #i #i think #people #remarkably

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#back #belief #better #better off #brett