#gist

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#deaths #fully #hear #hearts #imagined

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#assume #california #culture #dig #equipment

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#book #expected #i #other #primarily

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#end #even #fought #lives #lost

I went to a urologist - he told me I could go at any time. ↗

— Jay London

#could #go #i #me #time

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#changed #direction #discovery #elevated #ever

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist. ↗

— January Jones

#i #marine #meteorologist #wanted

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#certain kinds #fiction #friends #i #interest

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#happens #ignorant #magistrate #obscenity #shock

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#attached #forget #head #highly #how