#ill

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. ↗

— David Viscott

#any #consequence #effort #enthusiasm #face

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#although #automobiles #driving #i #inadvertently

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention. ↗

— Alexander Volkov

#always #around #attention #dead #everything

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#forbidden #kill #large #large numbers #numbers

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. ↗

— Voltaire

#because #brought #cannot #colors #contrary

Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#because #before #day #live #lived

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#enable #eternal #eternal life #life #mankind

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#death #disease #embrace #fears #free

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#head #killers #last #last summer #massachusetts

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#automatic #between #few #links #millions