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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#disinclined #distaste #lives #long #longevity

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#end #enormous #forget #freedom-loving #globe

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#any #civilization #different #equivalent #german

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#father #grew #i #intelligentsia #kind

Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#changing #clothing #descriptions #despised #drew

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#certain #certain point #failure #get #i

As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#background #bring #combination #congress #efforts

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#creation #creative #force #give #recognize

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#change #characters #different #different kinds #especially

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#bored #drawing #get #i #men