#lower

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need. ↗

— John Keegan

#form #him #himself #his #leader

What a lovely thing a rose is!... Our highest assurance of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#flowers #goodness #hope #nature #providence

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#around #controlling #country #i #lowering

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#development #faculty #human #look #lower

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. ↗

— Frank Knox

#beds #did #ease #flowery #god

I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#believe #carbon #contribution #economy #effectively

The flowering of love is meditation. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#love #love is #meditation

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#about #along #behaviour #cloning #computer

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#brown #clock #correctly #get #good

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#instruments #intestinal #lower #most #music