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Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#asleep #been #catalog #common #emotional

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#level #predictive #race #unrealistic #validity

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. ↗

— John Ruskin

#exchanging #foolish #give #laborers #live

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. ↗

— Sa'Di

#insensible #man #prosperity #relish #tasted

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#figure #i #i tried #more #myself

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#been #bigger #english #functions #hindi

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#fundamentalist #governments #organizations #stability #world

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism. ↗

— Justin Sane

#fighting #great #history #i #listening

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#glories #noun #possibility #same #simplicity