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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#complex #complex system #simple #system #systems

It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#because #bring #comes #garbage #house

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable." ↗

— Petra Kelly

#century #faced #faces #generation #impossible

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. ↗

— Thomas R. Kelly

#deepest #food #god #important #men

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#been #confess #evil #far #good

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#civilized #concept #generation #history #implies

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#enlightened #false #free #free society #lie

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#change things #done #expect #how #i

Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can't see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don't feel pressured. ↗

— Riley Keough

#completely #doing #favorite #feel #grew