#om

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equal #equality #freedom #rather #slavery

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was? ↗

— Patty Duke

#ago #am #books #close #did

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. ↗

— Patty Duke

#award #eleanor #eleanor roosevelt #i #received

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#attention #cumulative #detail #effect #his

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army. ↗

— Robert Trout

#based #company #domination #east #economy

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#i #imbeciles #prefer #rest #rogues

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

#affairs #apply #becomes #difficult #enable

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#before #beings #break #conventional #human

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about. ↗

— John Thorn

#alternative #behind #care #continuity #family

As I hope it doesn't come to the point where I need to take a day off. I feel pretty good right now and I'm not resting or saving for any other game. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#come #day #feel #game #good