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Asthma attack: a technique to coach women through their contractions, induced by fear of the result. ↗

— Bauvard

#birth #funny #humor #funny

Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct. ↗

— Bauvard

#extinction #funny #humor #funny

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. ↗

— Xenophon

#best #contempt #general #himself #leads

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#mentoring #talent #vocation #art

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

#strategy #art

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#mood #style #art

If you should attempt to maintain that film is an art in conversation with a cultured, intelligent American, he'll just plain stop talking to you. ↗

— Ilya Ilf

#art

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests. ↗

— George Washington

#government #laws #mutual-interest #obstruction #political-parties

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature? ↗

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

#medicine #nature #art

Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#mindfulness #psychology #wisdom #art