#part

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#hardened #liquid #mass #much #part

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#case #confident #day #end #end of the day

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#comforting #course #else #escapism #human

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#figure #first #first thing #give #hacker

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#direct #direct experience #eating #experience #genuine

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#fool #goin #got #learn #part

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#african #against #attention #basic #discrimination

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#love #major #other #parts #people