#erin

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#collective #depends #education #instruments #perpetuating

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#engineering #foot #human #masterpiece #work

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. ↗

— Voltaire

#every #gives #indeed #kills #letter

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#heart #last #life #muscle #now

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#comedy #dangerous #entering #land #start

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#also #being #boss #empowering #great

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#alcohol #going #i #jerry #kinda

Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering. ↗

— Ethel Rosenberg

#felt #i #me #might #must

When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#bad #been #cheer #circumstances #considering