#eve

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#elect #especially #everybody #fortune #going

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#athlete #away #career #forever #his

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#doing #doing the right thing #every #focused #getting

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#because #cannot #developed #ignorant #know

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#body #both #consists #developed #essentially

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#believing #cause #conceive #contradiction #development

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#even #expect #look #miracles #new

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#every #fresh #into #only #pangs

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#diagnosed #irony #once #problem #realities

I never was a child. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#i #never