#ice

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#death #emerge #greater #heroism #humanity

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#beauty #care #choice #detail #execution

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#corpses #critical #desert #lice #like

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#effectively #great #his #how #idiosyncrasies

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#average #before #choosing #committee #crap

This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled. ↗

— Michael Storm

#fun #great #happen #nice #paycheck

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. ↗

— Joseph Story

#entirely #integrity #justice #less #personal

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#actually #age #always #back #band

Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one that tells the joke and it's nice to be the one that is the joke and it's nice to do something that's a little bit different. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#become #bit #buffy #different #every

I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#anything #buffy #change #course #different