#mary

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#customary #end #fate #heresies #history

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#customary #end #fate #heresies #new

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa. ↗

— John Sununu

#bring #comes #contact #corn #ethanol

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#appetite #food #good #primary #requisite

Sugar maple!" Mary-Todd Holt knelt over her husband. "Are you all right?" Eisenhower sat up, and egg-size lump blooming on his crown. "Of course I'm all right!" he managed, his words slurred. "You think a little insect can stop me?" Reagan was unconvinced. "I don't know, Dad. She brained you with a baseball bat!" "Hockey stick," Dan corrected. "Those could be your last words, brat– ↗

— Gordon Korman

#dan #eisenhower #holt #humor #mary-todd

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. ↗

— David Attenborough

#i #interest #just #just looking #looking

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. ↗

— Dave Barry

#biological #breasts #function #make #males

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. ↗

— John Berger

#invention #light #makes #materials #photography

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#always #care #going #good #lacking

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. ↗

— James Cronin

#park #primary #provided #public #public school