#elves

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. ↗

— John Gilmore

#build #communications #give #guarantee #how

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#how #intelligent #intelligent life #into #life

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#desks #emergency #generation #himself #learned

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime. ↗

— George Herman

#ball #ball game #baseball #baseball game #been

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ↗

— Edmund Hillary

#mountain #ourselves

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#alone #away #being #carried #danger

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#does #helps #merely #people #propaganda

We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#country #empower #enable #kind #our

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children. ↗

— Jon Kyl

#leadership #leaving #means #our #ourselves

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#aspects #being #brings #broadened #consciousness