#be

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#help #how #knowledge #mankind #might

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#cynical #funny #humour #funny

To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations. ↗

— Anthony Hitt

#best #best interests #beyond #clients #consistently

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#dog #enjoy #him #merely #oneself

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#behave #best #country #days #kind

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#because #characters #even #kind #leeway

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#genocide #guard #huddled #indian #indian tribes

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#better #each #greet #hug #long

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#cage #claws #climbed #face #her

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#blind #cannot #eye #eyes #given