#ere

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#concerns #earth #economic #feet #harden

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#america #army #been #big #chunk

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#country #i #imagine #particular #player

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#choirs #churches #converted #creating #deliberately

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#cane #fellows #good #good place #got

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army. ↗

— Frederick II

#begin #remain #soldiers #them #think

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#every #guises #many #movie #problems

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#among #classes #comfort #great #harsh

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#growing #hearts #here #minute #new

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are? ↗

— Jakob Dylan

#gross #how #i #interesting #little