#ding

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#cool #early #i #including #jazz

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#arranged #arranging #buy #carefully #chef

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#between #childhoods #extremists #get #got

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#book #cracks #end #go #grove

Understanding is a two-way street. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#two-way #two-way street #understanding

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. ↗

— Elihu Root

#civilized #consists #fact #forces #lies

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cannot #force #kept #only #peace

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#book #cannot #enjoy #enjoy reading #over

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#avoiding #cannot #find #life #you

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burn #culture #destroy #get #just