#gen

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#generation #man #men #must #next

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#consummate #gentleman #john #john wayne #life

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. ↗

— John Lukacs

#course #forever #generalizations #like #matter

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#cynicism #intellectual #intelligence #substitute

About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

#agents #asked #came #casting #dropping

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #combination #cultures #eventually #many

Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding, "the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well-educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#intelligence #age

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#every #fact #forced #general #his

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#excellent #first #good #intelligence #itself

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#businesses #celebrity #enough #heartfelt #intelligent