#ought

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#heaven #most #perfect #prayer #single

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#dog #father #her #i #kill

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#because #fifty #lived #long #often

And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#arrange #both #brainwashing #china #chinese

I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#been #did #exposed #first #had

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#doctors #embarked #feeling #had #holocaust

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#become #bestow #content #earnest #fleeting

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ages #dark #dark ages #including #our

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#makes #nothing #old #older #quickly

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#america #asia #brought #countries #crises