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We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe. ↗

— Phil Collins

#places #pretty #shabby #some #stayed

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#every #other #our #over #own

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #catch #company #contagious #disease

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#fear #more #often #pretend #really

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#beads #board #came #directed #dozen

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#better #call #calls #difference #first

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #biological #human #inheritance #interests

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#environmental #incurable #only #pollution #prevented

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#going #leave #predict #someone #you

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#confident #control #feel #going #hand