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The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. ↗

— Thomas Day

#every #every heart #fact #general #heart

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#army #blood #community #governments #high

(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22 ↗

— Sanford Kwinter

#real #time #architecture

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#budget #bush #bush administration #claims #crisis

Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#bringing #commitment #could #country #deepen

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world! ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#belongs #coming #discriminate #feel #i

You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master. ↗

— Miguel Ruiz

#mastery #practice #art

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#arrangements #furthering #largely #maintaining #make

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. ↗

— Edward Weston

#photography #art

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#aristocracy #backyard #books #english #long