#here

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#involves #more #office #ought #qualifications

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#angeles #around #birds #canyon #frogs

I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#being #competing #i #i do #miss

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#cover #distracted #field #get #getting

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#black #cat #crossing #going #path

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. ↗

— Karl Marx

#art #confession #everywhere #immortal #movement

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. ↗

— Karl Marx

#combining #develops #into #labourer #only

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. ↗

— Karl Marx

#like #love #men #never #other

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. ↗

— John Masefield

#earthly #few #hate #ignorance #know