#sly

This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#created #economy #expecting #first #growth

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. ↗

— Alice Stone Blackwell

#any #ascent #feeling #finds #guide

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#because #carrying #competent #conviction #eccentric

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#big mistake #certainly #i #me #mistake

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#also #endlessly #forgets #his #man

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#after #bars #chat #death #else

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#came #campus #city #france #i

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#awake #away #back #continuously #far

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#certitude #external #feels #given #hand

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#bad #become #believe #lead #legislation