#vera

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#argue #average #could #course #definitely

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#anxious #being #come #death #duty

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#awe-inspiring #enough #gotten #i #person

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. ↗

— Edwin Arnold

#deliverance #each #his #makes #man

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage? ↗

— Ashleigh Banfield

#completely #coverage #happened #horrors #journalism

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone. ↗

— John Bardeen

#combined #could #effective #individual #more

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ↗

— William Bartram

#animal #artifice #attention #bestow #creation

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#average #average person #decide #definitely #go

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#does #enslaving #european #feel #free

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#capable #course #cup #economic #exceptional