#icu

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#bring #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #down

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#advance #agricultural #basis #causation #darwin

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#any #every #every man #everywhere #had

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#feared #join #lacking #loved #must

This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air. ↗

— Bill Maher

#blowing #contribute #entire #gingrich #heat

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#comfortable #guns #i #particularly

When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#believe #bidding #difficult #doing #else

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#classes #difficult #egypt #like #must

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#complex #events #exaggerated #find #funny

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting