#rve

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. ↗

— Jane Howard

#around #avoid #children #doom #fact

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#deserves #ever #falls #him #love

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#dog #fight #occasionally #often #starts

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #civilization #developments #every #here

The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#ahead #appears #attempted #average #better

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh. ↗

— D. L. Hughley

#desk #funny #got #how #i

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#does #happiness #happy #necessary #perfectly

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#civil-rights #osama-bin-laden #surveillance #terrorism #war-on-terror

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#aristocratic #attitude #culture #does #emotions

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. ↗