#now

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#good #i #know #looking #objectively

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#british #british empire #could #disappeared #empire

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#course #definite #destined #external #greatly

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried

And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#because #goal #honour #i #keep

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#boxer #future #got #i #just

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#career #goals #i #i am #myself

People know I was the last true champion. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#i #know #last #people #true

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#am #back #book #book tour #care