#ling

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beings #both #enabling #extend #human

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#art #dancing #like #living #more

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dancing #falling #falling in love #fond #love

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#become #connecticut #exposed #fact #four

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#failings #inability #mankind #quiet #stay

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men. ↗

— David Bailey

#any #feelings #hate #i #manly

To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.” I understood this to mean that as a seventeen-year-old whose brother was most likely dead, I was acting t like a complete ass-hat for a good reason. Not only had my brother disappeared, but–and bear with me here–a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from then on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ↗

— John Croory Whaley

#siblings #where-things-come-back #death

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too. ↗

— Anthony A. Williams

#effort #enormous #job #lose #put

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy. ↗

— Todd Barry

#comedy #i #ripping #rooms #stupendous

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

#decided #focus #out #singling #them