#ends

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#centuries #culture #dies #educational #fade

I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open. ↗

— Janis Ian

#becoming #believed #brought #confronted #country

Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#communities #easily #faced #feel #friendships

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#currently #depends #discovery #effective #fact

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#acting class #alec #andrew #back #baldwin

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#i #i love #jokes #laughter #life

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#been #call #commission #cooperate #criticized

Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes. ↗

— Timothy Hutton

#here #i #one thing #people #their

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were. ↗

— Robert Englund

#auditions #because #better #business #friends

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#bring #citizens #contributions #dividends #face