#toms

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality. ↗

— Thomas More

#individuality #life #our #precious #sources

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ↗

— Michelangelo

#best #confide #course #most #part

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#anywhere #condition #crime #customs #deplorable

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#brings #connection #custom #customs #fatal

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#friends #game #go #good #good friends

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#belief #breakdown #important #nervous #nervous breakdown

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity? ↗

— Paul Ryan

#class #class warfare #economic #economic stagnation #go

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#cargo #containers #customs #dangerous #economic

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#bad #because #chemical #chemicals #died