#ld

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#artist #blessed #blessed be #child #does

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#earth #feel #house #like #our

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. ↗

— Maimonides

#convinced #end #man #preparatory #reach

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123) ↗

— Herman Melville

#age

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#ancient #another #belongs #civilised #class

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe. ↗

— John Major

#banking #bonds #could #create #crisis

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints. ↗

— Lee Majors

#age #always #begin #believe #body

It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#diapers #ever #generation #generation x #last

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#call #called #changed #countries #developed

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#archetypal #attention #beauties #because #bodies