#hr

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there. ↗

— Frank Miller

#being there #best #create #efforts #i

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#am #i #i am #just #me

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. ↗

— Titus Livius

#difficulties #exercise #intelligence #many #may

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#being #best #came #cannot #come

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#christian #enemy #established #i #know

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#ajar #all day #cat #day #door

I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great. When you've done badly, you can't wait for another chance to come. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#again #against #another #badly #chance

I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#football #game #guy #i #rather

The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#better #fear #iraqi #iraqi people #lives