#ow

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#come #contribute #creature #different #divinity

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#bug #did #dollars #ever #going

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective. ↗

— Joe Barton

#energy #environmental #every #friends #i

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. ↗

— John Barton

#always #because #been #experience #feel

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to hear their situation in language, and find a way to talk about it. It allows you to find a language to talk about your own pain. If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that’s what these educators fear. If you really educate these kids, they aren’t going to punch you in the face, they are going to challenge you with your own language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#literacy #online-interview #power-of-reading #reading #death

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. ↗

— John Barton

#ideal #knows #only #reader #who

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them. ↗

— Karen Bass

#both #brown #early #early 20s #earned

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. ↗

— William Bartram

#delightful #distant #elegance #forests #grand

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#disarmament #does #fifty #follow #follows