#stan

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#away #blood #bombs #calls #democracy

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#constantly #could #go #hair #heels

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#basic #basic understanding #citizenry #deserves #how

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brain #feel #good #joyous #like

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #children #explaining #forever #grown-ups

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#country #farm #fill #fought #heart

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#begun #chaucer #circumstances #early #exercise

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#dream #get #importance #kid #older

Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#cup #denver #gotten #here #his