#aria

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#modern #movement #quite #vegetarian

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. ↗

— Melvil Dewey

#librarian #militant #must #triumphant

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#authoritarian #beacon #cannot #china #democracy

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#go #great #great organization #organization #phases

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#get #i #i am #more #organized

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

#congress #distinct #duties #how #i

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun--which is to say, preserving the human spirit. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#still-life-with-woodpecker #tom-robbins #totalitarianism #beauty

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#disorder #eating #effective #just #lot

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#amount #beautiful #bike #bikes #both