#tell

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#children #classroom #common #common sense #dollars

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul. ↗

— Catharine Beecher

#common #common sense #contradict #dogmas #increased

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#religious #science #intelligence

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more. ↗

— Anna Benson

#just #makes #me #more #something

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#ends #evil #impossible #measure #results

Remember, sex is never a thing you just had. Sex is the intercourse, the merging or convergence, of who the two of you are—your spirits merging. People ask, “How was it for you?” The reply is often, “It was great.” But is this really the right question and answer? Instead, personalize your question and ask, “How are you?” Respond with depth. Gaze into each other’s eyes and speak your truth: “I’m over the moon,” or “I love you,” or “I melted and I’m just coming back into myself. ↗

— Alexandra Katehakis

#intercourse #love #sex #spirit #intelligence

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#pessimist #prematurely #tells #truth #who

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself. ↗

— James Bowman

#weakness #intelligence

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. ↗

— Edward Bernays

#democratic #democratic society #element #habits #important

It was when I was in a police cell at the C.I.D. (Central Intelligence Division) headquarters in Lagos; the cell I was in named "The Kalakuta Republic" by the prisoners. I found out when I went to East Africa that "Kalakuta" is a Swahili word that means "rascal." So if rascality is going to get us what we want, we will use it; because we are dealing with corrupt people, we have to be rascally with them. ↗

— Fela Anikulapo Kuti

#fela-anikulapo-kuti #prison #rascal #intelligence