#ours

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea. ↗

— Ron Paul

#bases #believe #countries #defend #home

We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#ask #comes #generation #going #golf

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#days #else #ends #ever #every

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#condition #conducive #expectations #goal #happy

Change yourself and your work will seem different. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#different #seem #will #work #your

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#paper #politician #promise #worth #written