#nat

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#better #better life #came #dad #determined

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#celebrate #closer #exact #fact #fascinated

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. ↗

— Max Planck

#behind #conscious #existence #exists #force

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing. ↗

— Robert Plant

#healthy #healthy thing #idea #international #musics

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ↗

— Plato

#charm #everything #flight #gaiety #gives

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

#arises #democracy #dictatorship #extreme #form

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ↗

— Plato

#all things #anything #each #ease #else

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. ↗

— Plato

#always #any #bettered #curse #immediate

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

#compelled #evil #evils #good #greater

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— Plato

#also #custom #disgraceful #equality #injustice