#pass

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#circle #compassion #creatures #embrace #free

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#general #i #i think #important #people

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#already #also #building #china #economic

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#absolute #act #always #decisions #great

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#constitutes #controlling #dream #earth #field

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#away #day #drink #good #i

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. ↗

— Bill Gates

#death #each #eu #even #fad

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out. ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#down #face #fifth #i #me

It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#healing #art

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. ↗

— Steve Earle

#leisure #passes #such #thing #workaholic