#ale

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. ↗

— John Hersey

#defense #fabricate #failure #materials #mine

There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#ask #being #between #bringing #difference

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #dialectic #give #giving #i

Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#bank #campaigns #employers #fund #global

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#anything #go #into #kaleidoscope #mark

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#character #everything #female #female character #good

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. ↗

— Horace

#beats #equally #gate #kings #man

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. ↗

— John Howe

#dragons #fairy #fairy tales #fantasy #much

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#attitudes #between #characteristics #differences #disastrous

After hearing much from his patients about alleged faith-healing, a Minnesota physician named William Nolen spent a year and a half trying to track down the most striking cases. Was there clear medical evidence that the disease was really present before the ‘cure’? If so, had the disease actually disappeared after the cure, or did we just have the healer’s or the patient’s say-so? He uncovered many cases of fraud, including the first exposure in America of ‘psychic surgery’. But he found not one instance of cure of any serious organic (non-psychogenic) disease. There were no cases where gallstones or rheumatoid arthritis, say, were cured, much less cancer or cardiovascular disease. When a child’s spleen is ruptured, Nolen noted, perform a simple surgical operation and the child is completely better. But take that child to a faith-healer and she’s dead in a day. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#faith