#ill

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. ↗

#constrain #creativity #depress #designed #exclusively

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle

All things come round to him who will but wait. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#come #him #round #things #wait

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#america #because #civil #civil liberties #destruction

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#am #cannot #choose #close #concrete

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it. ↗

— Michael Finley

#away #basketball #enjoy #exposure #get

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#become #believes #gender #limited #more

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. ↗

— Ben Folds

#billy joel #both #great #jackson #joe

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it. ↗

— Ben Folds

#fighting #grow #grow up #hurts #knows

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. ↗