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The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. ↗


— John Williams


#between #competition #cooperation #countries #healthy

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. ↗


— Woodrow Wilson


#consent #governed #law #mankind #opinion

The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness; and prudence, cowardice; generosity, a clever piece of calculation; justice, a wrong; delicacy, pusillanimity; honesty, a modus vivendi; and by some strange dispensation of fate, he must see that those who at heart were really honest, scrupulous, just, generous, prudent or brave were held cheaply by their fellow-men. ‘What a cold-blooded jest!’ said he to himself. ‘It was not devised by a God.’ From that time forth he renounced a better world, and never uncovered himself when a Name was pronounced, and for him the carven saints in the churches became works of art ↗


— Honoré de Balzac


#religion #art

It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology. ↗


— Mark Hurst


#age

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age. ↗


— Stewart O'Nan


#fortune #good-fortune #kindness #luck #old-age

Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem. ↗


— Mark Hurst


#age

you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble. ↗


— Donna Clayton


#age

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe. ↗


— Eric Chaisson


#earth #humankind #universe #age

Well, most of us think "The Merchant of Venice" is a porno script. On a more personal note, I’ve decided on pizza for dinner. ↗


— Jaye Frances


#ebooks #jaye-frances #kindle-ebook #novella #romance

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. ↗


— Bertolt Brecht


#history #humanity #kiss #life #mankind






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