#amp

Not my species, not my problem. ↗

— Susan Sizemore

#urban-fantasy #vampire #urban-fantasy

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#am #bad #been #camp #companions

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bears #bodily #frame #his #however

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ↗

— Josh Billings

#like #one thing #postage #stamp #stick

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are. ↗

— Artur Davis

#before #bend #blessed #blows #break

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. ↗

— Evan Davis

#baggage #behavioural #beings #brain #bring

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#championship #chess #computer #computer program #forward

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. ↗

— Frank Black

#classical #driving #girlfriend #hall #i