#eat

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#arts #cause #disgrace #educated #every

Do you know how diamonds are made?" She gazed steadily at him, the light turning her green eyes transparent. He didn't wait for her to answer. "They're made of a single element - carbon. But, over millions of years, the carbon had to undergo incredible pressure-something like a minimum of four hundred pounds per square inch-and cook to at least seven hundred degrees. The amazing thing is that if there's not enough pressure or heat, instead of a diamond, plain old graphite is made. Imagine that-instead of the world's most indestructible and beautiful thing, you get just graphite. Something to make pencils with. Sure, pencils are nice and useful. But they aren't diamonds. ↗

— Karen White

#learning-to-breathe #beauty

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. ↗

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

#i #law #me #ruin #slow

Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#loss #love #pain #death

I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units. ↗

— Harold Ford

#am #appliances #cash #computers #efficient

Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students. ↗

— Milos Forman

#amount #another #communist #dwindled #every

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#creates #jobs #living #making #making a living

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#decent #decent people #goes #greatness #just

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#boy #expected #i #like #men

The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#expectancy #life #life expectancy #longer #much