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Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#been #cities #civilization #dark #heat

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. ↗

— Trey Parker

#changing #course #down #idea #just

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#believed #faith #giants #great #history

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#enter #local #married #men #politics

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#decay #expansion #means

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#beyond #body #entity #expands #members

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#defensive #except #fact #fort #in fact

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#back #brought #conventionality #elements #fabric

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#discover #else #further #horizon #know

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#bad #become #color #getting #happening