#cult

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#been #difficulty #examining #history #how

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. ↗

— John Ruskin

#complicated #difficult #easy #execution #expand

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#favorites #go #i #knack #movies

I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable. ↗

— Marat Safin

#comfortable #difficult #difficult times #during #felt

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people. ↗

— Marat Safin

#difficult #expectation #i #i think #much

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress. ↗

— Marat Safin

#comebacks #difficult #every #i #lot

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' ↗

— William Safire

#american #american culture #compound #culture #device

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#culture #lot #motorcycle #written

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

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult