Baldessarini Watches Quotes & Sayings

Members of the Athenian assemblies were chosen by lot, a method meant to protect the system from degeneracy. Luckily, this effect has been investigated with modern political systems. In a computer simulation, Alessandro Pluchino and his colleagues showed how adding a certain number of randomly selected politicians to the process can improve the functioning of the parliamentary system. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.
I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down ... tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens ... makes her a home. — Joss Whedon

Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information. — Martha Beck

Ted Cruz is tailored his message for a specific conservative evangelical. I think it's limited his appeal. I think he has the ability to appeal to everybody. — Rush Limbaugh

he grinned a grin that began in his eyes and went everywhere at once. It was devastating. — Paula McLain

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background. — Randall Kennedy

Are you going to ask me questions, Sheriff, or are you just going to sit there and think about how you're going to get into Doctor Graves' pants?"
"I can do both, Miss Pilcher," Jack said with a smile.
"I like you," she said, cackling. — Liliana Hart

Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm — Leonard Cohen

Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I was still a nerd in some ways, but I'd be that nerd on my own terms. Not to please anyone else. Not to be anyone else. — Bijou Hunter

But the time draws on for experience and observation to take the place of instruction: if — Fanny Burney

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall. — Stephen Covey

Engineering is a great profession. — Herbert Hoover