#ling

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#between #bodies #close #collective #contact

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#ceiling #comes #i #instrument #into

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#american dream #country #die #dream #fit

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#come #fish #fishing #fly #hesitation

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#american #business #developing #everything #getting

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#come #consider #early #i #i can

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#cds #collecting #i #like #make

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#child #heart #magic #mind #parents

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#events #feel #feelings #journalism #look

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#difficulties #great #where #willingness