#ore

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#hair #i #leg #like #school

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#cooper #did #explorers #few #fiction

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#before #both #broken #charges #common

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#humor #man #more #nothing #sense

I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that? ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#appreciate #back #being #bit #brother

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#doctrine #immortality #more #soul #than

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. ↗

— William Blake

#degrade #empire #englishmen #follows #foundation

In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have been before I became No. 1. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#became #been #before #dedicated #i

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#because #country #cruel #direction #face

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. ↗

— John Doerr

#coming #coming of age #community #lives #looking