#mass

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#anything #away #because #death #fear

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#antisocial #because #dangerous #develop #doubly

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#chinese #congress #day #ensure #forget

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. ↗

— Robin Leach

#bring #britain #change #cheap #could

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#big #elephants #even #hotels #killed

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#copyright #creativity #expanded #forms #going

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. ↗

— Carl Levin

#belief #building #common #common belief #delivering

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#disaster #extremists #hands #islamic #mass

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#begun #by the time #came #down #had