#lis

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#absolute #absolute truth #cells #commodity #context

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#offers #other #signs #speaks #symbolism

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. ↗

— John Thorn

#blissfully #death #definition #fully #ignorant

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#europe #freedom #fundamentalism #i #much

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic #destroy #know #liberties #means

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#factories #national #our #racial #socialist

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#dream #finally #games #go #i

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#been #blind #brother #brothers #dead

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#film #i #i am #i love #into

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#athlete #disabled #fact #feeling #greatest