#icu

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#curious #difficulties #idiosyncrasies #man #pleasure

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#business #device #did #dirty #horrible

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#myself #other #particular #should #socialism

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#bad #close #concept #difficult #family

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#articulate #being #confidence #deeply #how

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

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#more #other #people #somebody #than

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#experiences #feels #gregarious #intense #less

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#articulate #great #lovers #road #seduction