#am

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself. ↗

Are you in any way qualified? Yes? No? It doesn't matter. In America, "Qualification" is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#attitude #humor #attitude

Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the present crowds out the echoes and lessons of the past. It would be a shame if that were to happen with respect to the fur trade. It is a seminal part of who we are as a nation, and how we came to be. ↗

— Eric Jay Dolin

#astor #beaver #buffalo #fur #fur-trade

If a woman enjoyed sex, or expressed her sexuality outwardly she was automatically a slut with no respect for herself. Sex was a favor you allowed your husband so angels wouldn't curse you until morning. ↗

— Michael Muhammad Knight

#islam #slut-shaming #respect

... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful. ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#genealogy #origins #death

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door. ↗

— James Rollins

#judas-strain #sigma-force #thriller #science

ونحن على ثقة أنه لو درس شيوخ المسلمين العلوم الكونية وعرفوا أسرار سنة الله في خليقته لما كثرت الملاحدة وفشت المناكير ↗

— عبد العزيز جاويش

#science #science

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is. ↗

— Mark Hodder

#science-fiction #steampunk #science

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗