#hst

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#arrest #because #berlin #burning #catch

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#both #deficit #deficit reduction #dictates #fairness

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years. ↗

— Major Taylor

#been #careers #clean #clean living #exertion

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year. ↗

— John Hunter

#built #most #withstand #year

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#force #impact #never #permanently #physical

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#certificates #contrary #degrading #desire #earth

When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight. ↗

— Victoria Lamb

#paranormal-romance #witches #witchstruck #dreams

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hst #reason

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. ↗

— James Frey

#pain #suffering #withstand #suffering

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. ↗

— Martha Beck

#another #basically #genetic #looks #notwithstanding