#ear

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. ↗

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#boring #coded #computers #facebook #hard

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bacteria #being #billions #both #die

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined? ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#education #information-literacy #information-management #learning #literacy

People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#campaign #enjoyable #experience #impact #learn

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!... ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#father-and-son #fidelity #learning #love #pinocchio

You can learn from anyone even your enemy. ↗

— Ovid

#enemy #even #learn #you #your

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error? ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#age #down #down the road #error #going

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#being #end #guy #i #law

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. ↗