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A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#civilization #endeavor #expression #finding #human

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ↗

— Zara Phillips

#dad #pretty #sometimes

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #asia #contrasting #countries #developing

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#fingers #hard #i #kids #like

With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#dreary #employed #famine #forming #minds

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#crisis #economic #economic crisis #face #get

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#beckett #had #i #light #much

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#bitter end #days #end #feet #get

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#being #famous #high #just #like

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. ↗

— James K. Polk

#any #became #before #conception #congress