#kin

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#degradation #environmental #families #fetch #firewood

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies. ↗

— Hugh MacDiarmid

#europe #future #her #inspiration #instead

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#doors #kids #necessarily #opened #really

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest. ↗

— Ali MacGraw

#beautiful things #happiest #looking #makes #me

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#apt #kind #man #nobody #trusts

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#every #fact #forced #general #his

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#excellent #first #good #intelligence #itself

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#choice #choices #deliberate #enough #equals

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard. ↗

— George Lucas

#extremely #get #going #hard #important