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I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#about #back #degree #desperate #far

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#destroying #environment #fond #governments #including

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal. ↗

— Magnus Magnusson

#despairing #find #i #i am #mortal

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger ↗

— Eiichiro Oda

#dreams #freedom #future #luffy #one-piece

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#arab #arab world #believe #consider #deserve

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#deserved #i #i always #nobel #prize

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. ↗

— Maimonides

#balance #deed #destroyed #does #equal

Ars est celaree artem. ↗

— Ovid

#design #method #art

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#describing #i #into #more #move