#lt

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#clearly #clerks #endless #endless series #mock

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#centuries #culture #dies #educational #fade

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#cannot #celtic #character #countrymen #disliked

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought. ↗

— Janis Ian

#assassinated #died #difficult #everyone #fine

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#both #built #collapse #come #home

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ↗

— Mark Twain

#blossoms #faculty #lord #lost #out

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#aspects #been #changes #collective #course

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cause #correctly #could #ended #failure

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#heals #health #human #human health #institution

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#currently #depends #discovery #effective #fact