#nit

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #draw #encounters #generalization #half

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ↗

— John Woolman

#diversions #flock #going #greatest #greatest pleasure

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fear #forces #interest #only #two

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it. ↗

— Peter Bondra

#definitely #how #just #matter #much

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#discovered #ideas #lie #need #opportunity

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#bitter #bitter truth #chose #covered #eyes

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. ↗

— James Bovard

#dangerous #definition #friends #our #over

Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals. ↗

— Robert Stack

#auspices #become #criminals #democracy #enforcement

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#centuries #come #did #earlier #event

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#crimes #less #men #than #their