#not

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#being #centuries #civilized #discovery #exist

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation. ↗

— Eric Liu

#absurd #america #because #citizens #class

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. ↗

— David Livingstone

#earthly #give #make #me #nothing

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#another #imagine #man #mile #smell

For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#done #entertainment #entertainment business #had #highs

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud. ↗

— Gary Locke

#citizens #class #country #done #economic

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#bees #books #carry #mind #quickening

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ↗

— Lord Byron

#always #believed #depended #fortune #i

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#always #cannot #ignorant #man #understand

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby? ↗

— Haniel Long

#baby #back #better #cannot #change