#han

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#change #clean #keep #least #minds

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic bomb #bomb #damage #desolation #eden

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#changes #chiefs #exciting #first #gaining

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#beautiful #beautiful woman #behind #down #fun

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#allies #america #bush #did #doctrine

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#come #every #every man #far #influences

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#better #better person #else #hours #i

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was. ↗

— David Brainerd

#ever #i #i am #i think #life

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach. ↗

— David Brainerd

#approach #attended #been #blessed #blessed be

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

#greatness #honours #infinitely #none #pleasures