#via

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#aviation #comes #continue #highways #money

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman. ↗

— Belinda Carlisle

#sexually #size #viable #woman #you

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#caviar #chocolate #french #french fries #fries

One of the side effects of Viagra is blurred vision. Sounds great! When I’m taking a pill to pop a stiffy, how great is it that any woman I look at has blurred features and therefore is as beautiful as an impressionistic painting?
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— Jarod Kintz

#beautiful #blurred-vision #drugs #erection #hard-on

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#kissing #life #sylvia-plath #business

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. ↗

— Steve Fossett

#aviation #endeavour #enthusiasts #everywhere #flight

Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american society #another #attack #attention #ballistic

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#philosopher #says #something #then #trivial

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#asked #even #forces #french #i

This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum. ↗

— William Powers

#conservation #values #change