#bet

History is a race between education and catastrophe. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#catastrophe #education #history #race

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money. ↗

— Randy West

#also #appearance #between #competition #dawn

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#best #better #contemplate #darkness #despair

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#better #country #future #hard #make

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#clothes #fashion #look #make #suit

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#balance of power #between #democracy #elites #imbalance

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. ↗

— Richard Whately

#children #fortune #gives #giving #habits

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achieve #alphabet #believe #believe-and-achieve #believing

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#better #case #certainly #comes #different

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another. ↗

— Barry White

#between #bond #brother #could #direction