#lit

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication. ↗

— Bill Budge

#everything #getting #go #little #more

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#century #conflicts #depression #disgraced #dozen

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#begin #else #grandiose #man #politics

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#any #coast #country #early #east

Men, today we die a little. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#little #men #today

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#childhood #depraved #drawn #extreme #happened

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. ↗

— John Burroughs

#gathers #good #good thing #little #man

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#anything #before #broke #desire #exercise

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. ↗

— Samuel Ullman

#act #become #bounds #dignity #during

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#dominate #evil #good #good people #happens