#ill

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them. ↗

— La Monte Young

#available #eat #give #knowledge #lot

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. ↗

— Owen D. Young

#does #earn #fulfill #ideal #living

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature. ↗

— Cao Yu

#difficult #digest #ideas #literature #number

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end. ↗

— Viktor Yushchenko

#afraid #because #bring #elections #end

Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism. Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse. ↗

— Sam Harris

#age

I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy - not as angels but as few are happy amongst mortals. Some lives are thus blessed: it is God's will: it is the attesting trace and lingering evidence of Eden. Other lives run from the first another course. Other travellers encounter weather fitful and gusty wild and variable - breast adverse winds are belated and overtaken by the early closing winter night. Neither can this happen without the sanction of God and I know that amidst His boundless works is somewhere stored the secret of this last fate's justice: I know that His treasures contain the proof as the promise of its mercy. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#lucy-snowe #paulina-bassompierre #providnece #villette #age

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#battles #hegel #history #life #reminiscence

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.
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— Jarod Kintz

#artists #humor #illuminate #inform #show

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. ↗

— Robert Charles Winthrop

#cherished #country #defended #described #hands

I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard. ↗

— Scott Wolf

#feel #hard #i #just #like