#mit

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. ↗

— Doug Larson

#err #human #superhuman #to err is human

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department. ↗

— Erik Larson

#aware #department #extent #i #levels

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers. ↗

— Niki Lauda

#costs #coworkers #employ #flight #i

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#aggressively #aspects #days #either #enormous

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#comfort #economy #embrace #happiness #i

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#altered #best #compact #confederation #consideration

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#fit #himself #microscope #passion #seen

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#desert #i #i can #outside #people

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#conformity #earth #find #i #i am

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#class #classics #literature #machinery #medicine