#vol

We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#clashes #evolution #jewry #know #necessary

There are no shortcuts in evolution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#evolution #shortcuts

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. ↗

— Richard Branson

#believe #benevolent #dictator #dictatorship #i

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#become #capacity #emotionally #endless #exist

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events. ↗

— David Brin

#events #follow #going #heroic #i

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#ago #beach #beginning #bureaucrat #forty

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

#applying #back #began #energy #environment

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#thomas-jefferson #equality

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#because #caught #era #revolution #talking