#ding

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#against #aggression #assert #barren #chose

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows. ↗

— John Lawson

#dancing #founders #like #motion #much

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#long #men #our #parade #proper

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#bulls #caliber #higher #improved #much

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#became #book #books #could #deciding

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#creativity #money #movie #scale #seems

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#angola #beds #been #contents #deciding

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#again #against #businessman #carried #citizens

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#books #doubled #lives #pleasure #reading

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending