#mit

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more. ↗

#better #expectations #limited #more #others

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. ↗

It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#certainly #clear #course #double #food

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word. ↗

— Origen

#even #field #foreign #go #many

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#admitted #assertiveness #before #begin #betty

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#christian #commit #duty #every #evil

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. ↗

— Paracelsus

#founder #process #smith #vulcan

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#limits #rules #something #thing

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. ↗