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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing. ↗

— David Ortiz

#baseball #be happy #doing #everything #game

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ↗

— George Orwell

#balance #fair #foolish #fun #get

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#attention #brother #come #getting #i

I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy. ↗

— Clive Owen

#because #depend #does #film #heavy

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. ↗

— John Owen

#helpless #helps #leave #mortification #must

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#experienced #only #others #ourselves #pity

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition. ↗

— Major Owens

#cases #competition #drives #even #folks

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.' ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#conditional love #day #end #end of the day #eye

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#bad #call #dumb #i #know