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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#future #how #paramount #present #surrounded

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#decision-making process #else #everyone #feel #included

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. ↗

— Ram Dass

#expect #experience #important #including #merely

I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy-three I have at last caught every aspect of nature–birds, fish, animals, insects, trees, grasses, all. When I am eighty I shall have developed still further and I will really master the secrets of art at ninety. When I reach a hundred my work will be truly sublime and my final goal will be attained around the age of one hundred and ten, when every line and dot I draw will be imbued with life. - from Hokusai’s ‘The Art Crazy Old Man ↗

— Hokusai Katsushika

#drawing #painting #age

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#browser #content #decade #first #graphical

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#describe #folks #foreign #go #home

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me. ↗

— John Fowles

#despair #john-fowles #love #obsession #the-collector

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#appointment #bbc #been #broad #confident

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#alongside #becoming #coach #developing #helping

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#bits #class #dancers #day #fact