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Every time the wind blows I think of her. I wonder if I could generate electricity off my yearning. Maybe a mind wind farm of some kind. Hopefully I could provide enough power for all the lonely people in my bathtub to stay warm. ↗


— Jarod Kintz


#electricity #funny #humor #lonely #power

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work. ↗


— Leo Tolstoy


#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

I saw that he was looking anxious. 'I thought you weren't coming.' As he spoke, he grasped my hand. And if the sight of him had not quite restored the magic, the touch of him most certainly did. 'You're not wishing yourself some place else, Mary? ↗


— Jennifer Paynter


#earnestness #fear #hope #jane-austen #jennifer-paynter

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together. ↗


— Francis Bacon


#men

One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better. ↗


— Nicole Green


#past #change

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. ↗


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#defeat #inspirational #learn #man #motivational

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ↗


— Albert Camus


#depth #finally #i #invincible #learned

I didn't learn anything while I was talking. ↗


— Larry King


#learn #inspirational

A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least some of their ability may rub off on him. ↗


— Niccolò Machiavelli


#greatness #imitation #learning #men

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. ↗


— Frank Herbert


#science #science






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