#nit

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#country #ever #games #had #must

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity. ↗

— Lenny Wilkens

#american #american dream #anything #because #dream

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#became #began #both #carry #cold

My initial interest, just prior to my work on cytokines, was on cell-mediated immunity and delayed hypersensitivity, mostly with respect to the cells that populated these reactions. ↗

— Stanley Cohen

#delayed #immunity #initial #interest #just

So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around. ↗

— Mindy Cohn

#believe #believe in yourself #chances #come #opportunities

With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#brothers #create #fraternity #had #help

The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition. ↗

— Mas'udi

#byzantium #christianity #religion #science #religion

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#gothic #imaginable #infinity #made #principle

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#gravitated #i #instinct #mixture #naivete

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. ↗

— Dogen

#become #body #clear #follow #ideas