#icu

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#begins #between #different #each #feel

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#cases #civil #each #earth #general

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. ↗

— Lisa See

#behind #call #china #contests #curtains

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#learned #long #mind

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#each #fixed #nonsense #particular #peculiarities

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#cleared #continue #difficult #had #impossible

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#business #cannes #costume #humiliate #i

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one. ↗

— David Selby

#dark shadows #derived #developed #movie #new

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #deep #difficult #how #i

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#difficulties #does #labor #mind #strengthen