#cult

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. ↗

— Karl von Frisch

#grammar #grammar school #i #later #medicine

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#considered #difficult #i #i love #know

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities. ↗

— Sam Dash

#because #could #difficult #fired #getting

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#culture #highest #moral #ought #our

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#hardest #know #least #menial #most

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life. ↗

— John Doolittle

#culture #droves #eager #embrace #families

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#belong #cultivate #cultivating #doing #doing good

Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate. ↗

— Andrew von Eschenbach

#decade #dense #difficult #grown #information