#unity

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#community #get #happens #main #preoccupation

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#cricket #enjoyed #how #i #kent

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say? ↗

— David Graeber

#democracy #history #politics #equality

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#corporate #corporate world #everyone #i #intelligence

I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#back #could #families #give #had

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#aging #lost #new #opportunity #stage

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#continuous #courses #followed #intuitions #make

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life. ↗

— George Cadbury

#better #could #cultivate #each #family

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#benefit #community #every #fiction #good

I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity. ↗

— Gary Carter

#big #big leagues #coach #get #i