#iri

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#aspect #awards #bring #carry #common

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#anyone #consists #contented #exercise #fresh

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. ↗

— James Larkin

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. ↗

— James Larkin

#best #class #co-operative #commonwealth #could

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#bring #insights #new #politics #reject

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ↗

— Earl Warren

#form #justice #keeps #law #spirit

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#devil #dull #jealous #mad #possessed

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. ↗

— Jude Law

#champion #feel #few #general #great

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#good #indecent #mode #more #much