#venting

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#being #communication #concealing #defense #hiding

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #community #crime #established #fighting

With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#coming #exciting #having #inventing #lifetimes

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#demonstration #exclusively #formality #preventing #questioning

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#fixing #gaining #great #iran #missions

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#i #i love #inventing #love #scenarios

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#combination #inventing #less #material #materials

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#consists #enjoying #generally #greatest #greatest pleasure

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now. ↗

— Clare Short

#dealing #discussion #finding #going #honest