#bs

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#black #female #handicaps #many #more

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#amazed #long #mars #observer #probably

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#constantly #creativity #direction #evolutionary #higher

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone. ↗

— Christo

#absolute freedom #anyone #cannot #freedom #keep

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#color #different #different color #distinction #each

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. ↗

— Steven Chu

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#absolutely #any #biggest #did #example

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#absurd #advice #approach #end #foolish

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#electoral #human #intentions #more #nothing

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#ideas #much #obsessions #people #represents