#cult

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#creative #ego #expands #faculties #increases

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#bring #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #down

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#advance #agricultural #basis #causation #darwin

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores. ↗

— Lorin Maazel

#been #characterized #classical #classical music #confused

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it. ↗

— Jeanette MacDonald

#anything #cultivating #drinking #foolish #good

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. ↗

— Albert Camus

#culture #destiny #face #men #their

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#feared #join #lacking #loved #must

When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#believe #bidding #difficult #doing #else

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#classes #difficult #egypt #like #must

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting