#once

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#basically #been #being #chocolate #consumed

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. ↗

— Will Rogers

#creek #get #government #keep #make

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#also #assure #concerned #education #goals

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#concerned #dictionary #dregs #elitist #ideas

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#based #bible #concepts #findings #fit

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#addition #always #been #better #concern

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. ↗

— Jane Addams

#affection #cannot #conception #embody #hope

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. ↗

— Hal Borland

#again #also #clearly #constellations #distant

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. ↗

— Mikhail Botvinnik

#game #i #once #played #train

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#centuries #come #did #earlier #event