#lowers

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fyodor-dostoevsky #hipsters #ignorance #politics #wisdom

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#america #atheist #calls #christian #conviction

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#become #flowers #having #i #owe

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#flowers #house #hurry #i #monaco

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#education #falls #flowers #love #point

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive. ↗

— Al Purdy

#beast #bird #flowers #man #marvel

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#because #carried #enormous #followers #his

Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers. ↗

— Lance Secretan

#exceed #followers #ground #higher #inner