#dev

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. ↗

— Voltaire

#graces #milton #recommended #sacrifice #sacrificed

All for one, one for all, that is our device. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#our

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#diseases #epidemic #europeans #evolved #give

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hard #hard times #muscles #need #oppression

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? ↗

— Joan Didion

#anyone #before #choice #choices #devoid

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#doing #dream #film #films #hobby

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#being #being there #devoted #energy #hand

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. ↗

— Walt Disney

#appreciation #communication #conceive #devised #explain

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#become #century #detriment #developed #fact

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing. ↗

— John Doerr

#development #google #growing #had #losing