#ado

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. ↗

— Billy Carter

#brother #conform #i #image #lot

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#being #darkness #daylight #into #moon

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#courage #even #his #keep #life

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#gets #make #make no mistake #mistake #out

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bring #confusing #contract #contracting #database

Power is paradoxical. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#paradoxical

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware. ↗

— Julius Evola

#paradoxical #truth #religion

Technology has to be invented or adopted. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopted #invented

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopt #considerable #either #else #fads

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence. ↗

— George Alec Effinger

#burial #cure #fine #just #premature