#vices

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#critical #cutting #domestic #education #environmental

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#fail #invent #reformer #something #substitutes

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#assured #broad #consciousness #consecrates #conviction

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conclude #further #i #need #operas

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them. ↗

— Titus Livius

#neither #nor #our #remedies #them

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#amount #beings #computers #created #devices

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#ever #explain #going #i #lemon

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#geriatric #memorial #parties #services #set

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ↗

— Horace Mann

#conditions #devices #education #equalizer #great

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#appearance #because #confident #could #developed