#vices

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#borders #citizens #control #costs #failure

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. ↗

— George Washington

#citizen #defense #down #enjoys #even

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#could #devices #easily #hard #hard work

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#around #certain #come #covert #detailed

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#breaks #budget #budget cuts #bush #city

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. ↗

— Morris West

#institutions #members #prone #their #vices

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ↗

— Rebecca West

#disaster #into #vices #virtues

This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities. ↗

— Edward Whitacre, Jr.

#benefit #both #capabilities #creates #customers

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years. ↗

— Ron White

#demons #had #i #life #my life

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#automatic #basis #decisions #devices #fundamentally