#verse

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#diverse #friends #get #group #into

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#intelligence #lack #meaning #universe #without

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #first #first step #glorious #greatness

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#common #defined #else #essential #fire

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable. ↗

— Grace Slick

#begin #between #literacy #music #reach

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#cost #hear #jobs #move #now

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#brokers #business #commercial #construction #customers

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#come #economically #effect #going #larger

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#actor #create #hand #his #palm