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If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#battle #civilization #comes #down #going

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#before #between #day #hadn #happening

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#expenses #iraq #iraqi #iraqi people #military

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#after #children #dictate #everyone #fell

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#become #go #i #i am #just

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#daily #demoralized #developed #education #else

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#coherent #definite #heterogeneity #homogeneity #incoherent

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#because #fans #gotten #here #how

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#comments #decided #every #everybody #getting