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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ↗

— Paul Bert

#leave #march #modern #morality #proportion

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#dad #faith #get #great #great faith

If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#beat #because #bit #feel #get

On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#disingenuous #dress #even #full-on #had

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#brutal #feels #idea #like #middle-class

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else? ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#because #criticism #else #everyone #first

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#believed #best #care #correct #guess

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#also #hitler #i #intervention #korea

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience