#gain

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#assault #before #bodies #clear #enemy

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#chinese #cultural #directed #expansion #foreign

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#all things #allow #contented #defense #down

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ↗

— Epictetus

#gain #glory #greater #more #pilots

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#animal #child #does #hand #harsh

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#because #client #creative #depended #done

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#again #answer #broken #child #clean

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#been #kid #like #looks #she

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#bible #born #converted #forever #miserable

No weapon formed against me shall prosper. ↗

— Fred Hammond

#formed #me #prosper #shall #weapon