#here

There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#begin #being #bit #contemporary #even

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#everywhere #expressed #find #idea #possessed

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#coming #head #i #i always #keep

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#creative #give #hire #i #interesting

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#afford #any #between #communication #conflict

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. ↗

— Horace Mann

#both #diamond #forever #golden #gone

I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#down #everyone #go #gray #i

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#circumstances #detected #dim #effect #equipment

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#blocks #book #building #building blocks #chain

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#before #collision #here #i #just