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Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#archaic #badly #become #before #call

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire. ↗

— Anthony Hope

#am #i #i am #i may not #may

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#beautiful #does #ear #echoing #eggs

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. ↗

— Horace

#both #delusions #different #equally #error

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. ↗

— Jim Horning

#nothing #simple #will

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength. ↗

— Black Elk

#find #gift #good #i #know

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another? ↗

— James D. Houston

#basic #choose #rather #set #than

There is nothing like practice. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#nothing #practice

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #books #cannot #exclude #few

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. ↗

— Ruth Hubbard

#cannot #categorize #evolve #our #place