#lea

The best artists know what to leave out. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#best #know #leave #out

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#internationalist #internationally #least #need #nowadays

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#certainty #considerations #further #give #hope

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#becoming #behind #characteristic #clear #economically

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#bridge #communications #community #concept #economically

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#almost #any #depends #does #drive

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. ↗

— Ovid

#burns #clean #lamp #oil #wick

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

#beautiful #beautiful things #belong #book #concrete

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#commitment #communities #enforcement #epidemic #federal

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ↗

— Doug Larson

#bounds #expectancy #good #green #grow