#new

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. ↗

— Hans Kung

#cold #cold war #collapse #colonialism #communism

The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#each #extent #great #great extent #layers

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer. ↗

— Dick Dale

#buddy #buddy rich #could #doing #drummer

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them. ↗

— Tom Daley

#apart #i #look #newspapers #pictures

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent. ↗

— Tom Daley

#consistent #could #did #get #had

I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team. ↗

— Carson Daly

#back #became #big #california #came

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home. ↗

— Carson Daly

#both #city #eat #entertain #entertaining

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out. ↗

— James Daly

#distracted #excellence #focus #got #just

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. ↗

— Matt Damon

#childhood #early #early childhood #education #going

Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in. ↗

— Matt Damon

#down #everybody #feel #going #having