#arc

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#indifference #into #mind #narcotic

Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can. -Captain Tagon ↗

— Howard Tayler

#explosives #humour #mercenaries #sarcasm #money

No. Absolutely not.” “Simon,” she said. “It’s a perfectly fine plan.” “The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?” “Yes.” “No,” he said. “No, it isn’t.” Clary sat back. “You don’t just get to say no.” “This plan involves me! I get to say no! No.” “Simon—” Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. “Let me introduce you to my good friend No. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#sarcasim #communication

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#invaluable #research #tool

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping. ↗

— Kate Fox

#between #difference #found #little #little difference

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#age #began #distorted #early #early age

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. ↗

— Juan Cole

#arrest #decision #early #his #how

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#became #began #both #carry #cold

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research. ↗

— Juan Cole

#accept #argument #balance #david #government

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#gothic #imaginable #infinity #made #principle