#ape

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ↗

— Edward Young

#birth #death #fire #moment #nothing

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#because #bonds #corporation #cynically #engraved

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#entirety #escape #fall #history #into

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. ↗

— Bill Gates

#become #communication #created #creativity #empowering

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#case #escape #hard #insists #poverty

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#paper #sheet #starts #visionary #world

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#giving #important #paper #people #reliability

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#came #curtain #dark #field #flat

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#course #crowd #far #love #more

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension. ↗

— Michael Landon

#dimension #father #feelings #felt #had