#semen

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#away #direction #former #had #human

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city. ↗

— Alan Autry

#city #continue #earned #endorsement #ensure

We rode the basement trains all night, speeding through the subterrains. I held her chin in the cup of my hand and her eyes held tight to mine, imploring me to reveal to her the mystery of that which awaits us on the pavement above, come the day we ascend from this labyrinth of trains... 'We will ride these beautiful basement trains forever,' said I, 'nothing awaits us; and as your beauty folds, so do my dreams. Come, my love, let us wander these tunnels of the endless city. This holy, endless city! ↗

— Roman Payne

#payne #roman-payne #the-basement-trains #beauty

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. ↗

— Julian Assange

#basement #cables #come #confinement #continue

it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never be used as the food of the individual. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#food

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#enforced #immediate #lessons #life #life is a

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#advertisement #fast #powerful #reputation #traveling

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. ↗

— Brian Eno

#amusement #been #find #fun #general

I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#both #country #democratization #differ #east

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. ↗

— M. C. Escher

#achieve #attempt #basement #check #go