#lt

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. ↗

— Eddie Rickenbacker

#character #cornerstones #four #imagination #independence

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#altogether #biological #boundaries #bypass #dna

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. ↗

— Pat Riley

#better #excellence #gradual #result #striving

orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ↗

— Juvenal

#men

He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before Dean Devlin shows up and rains on our private parade, I snort and ask, "Good book?" I forget I'm pretending to be sitting behind my two-thousand-ninety-eight-page Highlights of Modern Chemistry book, so he snorts back. "Better than yours. ↗

— Rusty Fischer

#ghouls #heavy-metal #paranormal-romance #romance #romantic-comedy

There is no denying that Eros was now in love.He had fallen in love with his wife, Helen, more than 15 years ago, & that was why he married her.He had now fallen in love again with his new Secretary.And that was what was now driving him bonkers.[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#love

Hephaestus told Phyllis that she owed her name to the lovely girl whom Acamas left behind in Thrace after the Trojan War, promising to return.The poor girl waited in vain & out of desparation, hanged herself.The Goddess Nemesis took pity on the girl & turned her into a leafless almond tree.When Acamas at last returned,he was overcome with grief & embraced the tree which immediately sprouted green leaves, which gave the Greeks their word "phylla" meaning "green leaves" & all the botanists of the world their "phylla" words.Hephaestus also said that Vicky stood for Victory[Nike].[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#love

Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #lonely

What good is money if it can't buy happiness? ↗

— Agatha Christie

#money #wealth #money

Oh my God, cheese burn! ↗

— Susan Bischoff

#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-urban-fantasy #money