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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. ↗

— Tecumseh

#fortune #i #i am #maker #my own

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. ↗

— Tecumseh

#death #divide #for the day #go #great

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #black and white #civil rights #era #helping

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#difficult #doing #filmmaker #french #honoring

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#action films #better #films #live #live action

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous. ↗

— Edward Teller

#contributed #defeat #enormous #i #i tried

'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#any #bang #cheer #cop #desktop

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ↗

— William Morris

#daily #daily life #details #genuine #happiness

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#clearly #first #mind #must #see