#ling

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. ↗

— David Douglass

#appealing #contrary #facts #how #hypothesis

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#god #peace #politicians #states #united

The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned not to complain or be distracted by suffering. To persevere was always a reflection of the state of one’s inner life, one’s philosophy, and one’s perspective. It was best to accept old age, death, injustice, hardship – all of these were part of living ↗

— David Guterson

#age

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

#confessed #dare #fear #girl #independent

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#know #much #people #telling #think

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling. ↗

— Jim Dale

#audience #certain #come #feeling #funny

I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes. ↗

— Carson Daly

#call #figure #going #guy #i

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

#generally #misunderstand #people #promoting #telling

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. ↗

— Ted Danson

#dabbling #environmental #environmental issues #every #important

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#away #basic #basic things #being #duped