#ions

Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there. ↗

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea. ↗

— Judi Dench

#back #bit #carry #easily #egg

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#enough #ever #guess #i #life

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#dismantle #elections #enough #environmental #every

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#blew #books #conditions #gives #hope

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#before #grew #grow #make #only

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#dignity #even #holiness #imagine #more

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. ↗

— Mos Def

#experience #life #make #observations #questions

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. ↗