#mina

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#history #illuminates #interests #only #past

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view. ↗

— Roger Ailes

#eliminating #just #point #point of view #programming

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#always #balance #between #coherence #create

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#any #book #booksellers #com #cost

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. ↗

— Mary Antin

#burned #carry #delighted #did #father

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline. ↗

— Sean Astin

#determination #discipline #easing #far #focus

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#among #common #common denominator #denominator #find

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#addictive #damnation #point #sins #tend

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#again #come #discrimination #does #goes

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. ↗

— Balthus

#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great