#mos

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#course #distrust #i #improve #lives

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#application #clever #consider #constant #hell

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmos #life #mystery #universe #life

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. ↗

— John Fowles

#anyone #except #important #important questions #life

I wouldn't sing any of this if I didn't think it might help someone. Especially girls. It's so hard for girls - pressure to like this band or that band, dress like this but not like that - do whatever will make you blend into the wall. But girls are so passionate inside, waiting for an outlet - and that's what I try to encourage: be who you are, take control of your life. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#encouragement #flyleaf #girls #hard #help

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bands #because #bunch #could #evidence

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#democracy #every #filibuster #laws #most

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. ↗

— James Brown

#most #one thing #our #problems #solve

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#every #important #important things #life #most

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win. ↗

— Asa Gray

#assent #charitable #could #expect #full