#gr

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#ascribed #fifty #forces #given #gods

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#grant #i #lord #loved #might

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ↗

— William Osler

#distinguishes #feature #greatest #man #medicine

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#andy #broadway #bros #cream #funk

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it. ↗

— John Otto

#conscious #exactly #felt #first #groove

One is born to be a great dancer. ↗

— George Balanchine

#born to be #dancer #great

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ↗

— Faith Baldwin

#facile #greater #lack #silence #sometimes

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#arises #color #green #loveliness #prime

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#atheist #believes #catholicism #grandeur #great