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I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#film #generations #i #know #origins

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. ↗

— John Searle

#examples #extensions #find #i #ice

As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget. ↗

— Junior Seau

#bring #championship #championship team #feat #forget

Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough. ↗

— Junior Seau

#adverse conditions #assignment #athletes #being #chasing

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#conditions #cover #insurance #insurance companies #longer

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#companies #conditions #cover #insurance #insurance companies

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#begins #between #different #each #feel

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bodies #change #constancy #diminished #diversity

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#different #founded #good #injury #interests