#simi

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. ↗

— Robert Plant

#between #european #folk #musics #north

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#body #certain #community #economic #features

I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions. ↗

— James Randi

#conditions #consider #done #experiments #horizon

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#history #love #pessimism #truth #art

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#pessimism #pessimists #point #sincerity #suspecting

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#know #may #nothing #ours #purpose

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#life #paul-and-virginie #paul-et-virginie #pessimism #pessimistic

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. ↗

— Egon Schiele

#body #everywhere #flowers #human #human body

I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view. ↗

— Jason Segel

#hire #i #i do #issue #me

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them. ↗

— John Shadegg

#american citizen #assimilation #becoming #citizen #home