#eli

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. ↗

— Edward S. Herman

#business community #community #consent #domestic #easy

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

#good #i #i can #i think #like

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. ↗

— Herodotus

#calumny #doubly #first #him #injured

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. ↗

— Herodotus

#believe #bound #case #every #i

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#get #i #keep #love #really

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#beloved #bread #found #freedom #honor

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#breathing #capacity #every #feeling #life

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#bad #bad fortune #believe #believed #come

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#finding #loss #funny

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#deliver #immediately #pressure #research #science