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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#better #chance #commonly #company #contrivance

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights

Once you have six children, you're committed. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#committed #once #six #you

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#age #any #anybody #book #highly

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#generation #good #reason #seasoned #some

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#belt #commercials #funny #go #i

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#around #because #community #empowered #fancy

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#broaden #civil #civil rights #community #decades

There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution. ↗

— Van Jones

#communities #corners #down #first #get

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#common #disease #either #end #know