#oft

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and." ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#because #completed #forget #know #make

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth. ↗

— Charles Edison

#before #commonwealth #even #how #issues

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#always #because #bring #children #fly

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#careful #company #dead #keep #living

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

#brings #commonly #end #his #journey

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#cookie #destiny #find #fortune #me

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#build #field #her #humble #lark

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#easy #film #funding #i #i think

Defect-free software does not exist. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#does #exist #free software #software

There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#arrived #aware #became #class #comes