#ran

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.' ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#academic #adage #difference #grandmother #happens

Through their 'Making a Difference' franchise, I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#communities #continue #difference #excited #franchise

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#coasted #east #extending #five #found

While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time. ↗

— James Cronin

#chicago #course #developing #field #given

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#dramatically #end #grand #however #irony

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#anyone #even #had #highly #illness

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming. ↗

— Beatrice Dalle

#because #been #building #burnt #charged

One's ignorance is one's chief asset. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#chief #ignorance

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#connection #definitely #feel #free #god

NI! Oh no! Not ni! ↗

— Graham Chapman

#holy-grail #humor #funny