#lit

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#been #continent #cultural #first #gathered

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#impossibility #necessity #progress #yields

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#being #better #capability #great #great advantage

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#absolute #better #certainly #could #define

I am such a political person. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #i am #person #political #such

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#capability #figure #fully #good #interests

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought. ↗

— George Eliot

#humility #physician #psychology #death

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#admit #average #child #find #his

A man is literally what he thinks. ↗

— James Allen

#man #thinks

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #religion #society #sociology