#iv

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#divorce #divorces #duties #each #help

I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#heaven #hell #sameness #intelligence

The motive power of democracy is love. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#love #motive #power

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. ↗

— Tony Blair

#care #feel #know #lives #misunderstood

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ↗

— Joan Didion

#claims #forever #hardest #his #image

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#gives #head #i #important #music

That's something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It's so important. ↗

— Steve Blake

#always #better #dribble #guard #his

It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with? ↗

— Vin Diesel

#aspects #challenge #completely #emotions #fictional

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. ↗

— William Blake

#bears #harvest #plentiful #receiver #thankful

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#discovered #gamer #got #i #private