#trace

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

#man #memory #mix #ought #pursued

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#between #correlation #obesity #policies #poverty

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#brute #curiosity #examining #food #habit

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ↗

— Rene Char

#leave #must #passage #poet #proof

Trace asked Jackson, “Why the hell are you even here?” Jackson looked far too uneasy for Trace’s peace of mind. “I know you didn’t want me here. I got the message loud and clear when you cut the call. Thing is, your little lady was damned insistent that I do something.” “Like get stunned and tied up?” “You try planning with a hellcat breathing fire in your ear, making demands, prodding you-“ “Priss?” “She’s a terror. That name doesn’t suit her at all. ↗

— Lori Foster

#trace #men

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#credit #exclusively #human #i #i see

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#great #had #haven #i #influences

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts. ↗

— William Jackson

#close #close friend #comics #copy #covers

In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#age #animal #been #business #came

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#burn #completely #good #leaving #like