#ace

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#after #between #chicago #dante #difference

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#every #every day #freedom #must #occupied

It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

#away #because #enjoy #enough #even

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#confused #face #faced #go #however

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#cannot #destroyed #else #find #first

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#come #dust #face #fall #fallen

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#also #biologists #build #classify #common

Race differences show up early in life. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#early #life #race #show #up

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#after #athletes #best #found #i

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#between #country #fact #first #front