#led

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#doing #good #greatness #mind #much

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beware #dangerous #false #ignorance #knowledge

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #hitherto #immoral #knowledge #morality

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. ↗

— David Simon

#americas #being #beings #cultural #day

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#black #first #how #jokes #killed

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#could #down #fists #help #her

We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#between #early #groups #hundred #measuring

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#black or white #generally #i #labeled #most