#mini

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#culture #fact #i #i think #in fact

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#administration #become #becomes #i #law

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#consider #considered #doing #filmmaker #gonna

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#american society #choice #fabric #iraq #society

The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department. ↗

— Harold Edward Holt

#britain #cooperation #degree #department #dominions

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ↗

— Madonna

#humor #women #humor

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#brown #create #falls #funk #individual

The world was hers for the reading. ↗

— Betty Smith

#feminist #reading #world

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#ground #invasion #justifiable #justified #minimum