#chan

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#academic #also #america #consider #debt

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#because #change #conditions #essentials #events

We need somebody to give us a chance. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#give #need #somebody #us

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#art #attraction #because #being #brought

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#better #change #even #final #form

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#currently #fighters #fighting #guard #old

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #consent #exists #geological #notice

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#business #changed #compass #end #government

You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself - physically and emotionally - into a woman who's totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#better #changed #day #different #emotionally

What has changed is that people have stopped working together. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#people #stopped #together #working #working together