#venti

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy. ↗

— Jonathan Klein

#best way #does #evidence #interventions #keep

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. ↗

— Robert Shea

#functions #human #human inventions #interdependent #inventions

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#civilization #discovery #dreams #imagination #invention

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#rage #venting #anger

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. ↗

— William Blake

#grudges #rage #venting #anger

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible. ↗

— Robert Henri

#artist #daring #disturb #enlighten #interesting

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#conventionality #taste #art

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#art #convention #architecture

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#among #comes #conventional #kind #literacy

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#choice #death #destiny #fate #fiction