#stan

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#circumstances #instead #letting #meant #often

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#both #history #individual #life #neither

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#learn #more #than #understand #until

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#assess #endures #how #i #knows

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play. ↗

— Eugene Ormandy

#center #how #i #just #last

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#act #association #begins #common #formal

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#book #constant #doing #i #movies

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#california #civil #civil liberties #considered #crouch

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is a friend of mine, and the two of us were just rolling our eyes, it's like, of course, you finally have two great female leads and you're going to put us on against each other. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#body #brought #course #each #executives

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform. ↗

— William McKinley

#i #i am #man #platform #standing