#om

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#issue #life #person #personal #political

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#although #back #been #boring #certainty

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#comedies #every #general #get #i

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#family #give #someone #you

People learn to lead because they care about something. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#because #care #lead #learn #people

It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to deceive the populace into ascribing to a deity what was the work of the engineer. In much the same way today, the almost boundless fecundity of the creative scientific discoveries and inventions of the age are being appropriated for the purpose of the mysterious opening of doors into the holy of holies of the temples of mammon by a hierarchy of imposters and humbugs, whom it is the first task of a sane civilization to expose and clear out. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#money #politics #science #technocracy #age

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? ↗

— Basil Bunting

#consent #madness #make #make up #moment

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to. ↗

— Eric Burdon

#conventional #conventional way #decided #exit #i

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#age #cheese #matter #something #unless

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. ↗