#d

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. ↗

— Herta Müller

#death-and-dying #gulag #hunger #starvation #will-to-live

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#ends #game #litigation #practical #pursuit

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ethics #morality #progress #society #sorrow

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people. ↗

— Gay Talese

#lot #me #people #restaurants #wonderful

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#also #forgotten #gods #hopefully #i

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'. ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#grown #i #said #up

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#experience #had #i #i am #lot

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#continent #easy #imported #luxury #necessity

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#measure #placed #statistics #type #used

A goal without a date is just a dream. ↗

— Milton H. Erickson

#dream #goal #just #without