#esp

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls? ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#afghanistan #begin #behind #especially #fooling

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#also #appears #body #everyone #face

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#different reasons #friends #i #i love #lot

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect. ↗

— David Sylvian

#create #cultural #culture #environment #extent

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#bottom #despise #greatness

It is only the ignorant who despise education. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#education #ignorant #only #who

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #especially #everyone #experiences #good

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#administration #become #becomes #i #law

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. ↗

— Amy Tan

#culture #onerous #placing #represent #responsibility