#ere

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. ↗

— Henry Miller

#capable #could #enough #idea #killing

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#broken #dwellings #far #fields #had

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#had #i #knew #myself #only

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#busy #census #common #conflicting #give

I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#come #down #florida #here #i

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#dependent #easily #einstein #formulated #fundamental

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#audience #behavior #being #directing #doctor

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power. ↗

— Sergei Udaltsov

#free #here #leave #our #place

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#became #between #case #completely #difference

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#does #interesting #literature #made #makes