#sf

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#bed #complete #could #dissatisfaction #else

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#always #cycling #excellence #going #i

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world. ↗

— James A. Leach

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If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case. ↗

— Ang Lee

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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#always #be yourself #duplicate #express #express yourself

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#could #dad #daughter #every #go

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. ↗

— Jack Lemon

#audience #himself #his #need #really

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

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