#mm

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. ↗

— Voltaire

#books #communicate #fetch #find #fire

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. ↗

— Voltaire

#common #common sense #contrary #more #nothing

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#about #almost #astrology #because #best

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beings #cancer #communities #cure #eliminate

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#another woman #basically #been #career #ever

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#diverse #europe #level #low #muslim

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#go #i #learn #school #some

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#cause #change #changes #communities #england

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#between #body #communication #country #dwarfish

The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I've been through the last couple years on and off the court. ↗

— Dwyane Wade

#biggest #biggest thing #constant #couple #court