#cent

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#i #percentage #roles #settle #small

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#aim #bringing #century #flickering #highest

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #loathed #melancholy #whole

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later. ↗

— Pat Sajak

#century #here #i #i am #into

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#consumers #countries #fill #more #other

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#experts #more #say #task #than

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#compare #crazy #gave #go #god

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

#believe #briefly #center #delusion #else