#cent

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#began #century #desire #done #earth

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#man #me #money #other #people

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. ↗

— Billy Barty

#dreams #eighty #else #everyone #families

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#belgium #central #countries #country #education

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#luck #per #skill #try #without

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#girl #good #good movie #i #movie

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#explore #investigate #major #mind #task

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#begun #common #entirely #europe #even

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#centuries #democracy #did #during #ideas