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Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers. ↗

— Ai-jen Poo

#employees #employers #their #whim

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves. ↗

— Ernest Poole

#cut #eat #firewood #grain #grow

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#area #away #become #been #bit

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#i #less #money #more #walk

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#glasses #greatest #his #look #magnifying

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#destroy #knave #make #makes #patriot

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics. ↗

— John Pople

#branches #changed #could #follow #had

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress. ↗

— John Pople

#base #changing #could #easy #frequently

They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?' ↗

— Natalie Portman

#going #i #like #me #ok

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ignorance #infinite #knowledge #must #necessarily