#extract

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. ↗

— Leon Redbone

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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. ↗

— Bono

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He never raised a hand to us. He always said that inflicting pain, even as a last resort, was a sign that intelligence had been exhausted. He said smacking just passed on violence as an inheritance. But he was not soft with his words; when he called you to order, it pulled you up sharp. It wasn’t just a case of not teaching children to hit out. He believed the far more important lesson for the child was to realise that there are always words. However bad a child’s behaviour, there were always more words; the time to stop talking was never a point he would reach. ↗

— Christian Cook

#intelligence