#ow

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#away #degree #disciplinary #drift #expansion

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs. ↗

— Joe Baca

#care #consumers #cost #costs #however

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. ↗

— Joe Baca

#fight #holds #ii #learned #monopoly

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. ↗

— Richard Bach

#being #come #given #however #make

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#art #away #elemental #ephemeral #forbidden

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#any #army #better #boy #getting

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#hour #knows #mind #plenitude #rather

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything. ↗

— John Bacon

#comes #dignity #down #people #respect

When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#dream #i #just #know #out

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#ask #black #born #church #i