#zen

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#asset #frozen #nature

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest. ↗

— John Lynch

#citizens #clean #deserve #expect #government

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#associations #dozen #each #end #ever

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#difference #little #little thing #little things #make

I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#athletes #been #come #dozen #fascinated

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#better #citizen #citizen kane #course #everyone

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#architects #beautiful #been #beltway #boom

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. ↗

— James Madison

#class #food #happy #independent #may

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. ↗

— James Madison

#administer #assemble #citizens #consisting #democracy

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. ↗

— James Madison

#criterion #cultivate #gotten #majority #ought