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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#attention span #culture #destroying #mission #press

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. ↗

— Robert Caro

#feel #higher #life #like #outside

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#disciples #expect #gave #gospel #himself

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going. ↗

— Tom Felton

#been #before #crazy #even #getting

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. ↗

— Robert Caro

#american people #did #every #johnson #live

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience. ↗

— Robert Caro

#because #come #experience #experiences #get

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #discouraging #eisenhower #feeling #fell

I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging. ↗

— Eric Church

#i #much #new #pretty

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#body #communicate #conscious #earth #few

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities. ↗

— John Carpenter

#character #characters #definitely #halloween #i