#rant

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#i #meal #other #people #restaurant

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#box #box office #exactly #gamble #grant

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding

The most dangerous people are the ignorant. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#ignorant #most #people

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#around #baseball #going #granted #kind

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God. ↗

— Charles Bent

#desire #end #full #get #god

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work. ↗

— William Bernbach

#because #guarantee #logical #makes #sense

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#guarantee #half #i #open #point

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#crime #destiny #excuse #failure #fool