#iona

Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#sherrilyn-kenyon #family

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#consequences #culture #institution #intelligence #located

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. ↗

— John Donne

#jail #own #palace #thine #thy

I sustain myself with the love of family. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #family

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. ↗

— Will Durant

#history #hoard #inflationary #know #last

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice ↗

— Kami Garcia

#inspirational #love #beauty

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#coexistence #created #critical #critically #entity

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me. ↗

— Fred Durst

#affected #against #emotionally #feel #got

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#allowing #barrels #billions #drilling #feet

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#bring #character #deeper #digs #everything