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In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires

I get all fired up about aging in America. ↗

— Willard Scott

#about #aging #america #fired #get

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope

I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#both #clue #end #fact #final

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#back #going #me #new #road

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#anywhere #century #cities #drive #hard

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#because #faith #i #i am #journalist

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#art

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#always #america #i #immigrant #something

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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