#elves

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#another #bootstraps #casting #community #connected

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves. ↗

— Kate Fox

#gossip #just #long #men #more

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. ↗

— William Hague

#democratic #development #earn #ease #find

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ↗

— Will Durant

#codes #conditions #environmental #moral #themselves

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#accounted #case #i #low #myself

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves. ↗

— Jack Hanna

#destroy #eventually #habitats #important #important thing

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things. ↗

— Mary Hansen

#also #around #asses #change #changes

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#between #contact #dictate #experience #immediate

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves. ↗

— Rita Hayworth

#liberate #our #ourselves #tied #way

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place. ↗

— Neil Kurshan

#another #children #good #good advice #imagining