#pre

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better. ↗

— Anita Desai

#better #caste #characters #exist #india

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#doubt #first #i #knew #never

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book. ↗

— David Deutsch

#am #any #book #broadly #change

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#expecting #get #gold #good #good thing

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#hard #last #legs #me #much

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ↗

— John Dewey

#itself #life #preparation

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ↗

— John Dewey

#future #living #preparation #process #therefore

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#chance #fighter #fighters #found #had

Over the last several years, I've passed defunding Planned Parenthood, the sonogram bill, voter ID. I passed the TSA anti-groping bill, sanctuary cities, loser pay, border security, and the toughest Jessica's law in the entire nation against sexual predators. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#bill #border #border security #cities #entire

Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#bit #crazy #different #fell #guess