#rated

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

#concentrated #energy #fail #hold #lot

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. ↗

— Lactantius

#concerning #crete #enumerated #gods #having

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#century #elaborated #going #i #implicit

I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor. ↗

— Bob Lilly

#always #bay #competitor #couple #every

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#ago #away #cape #died #done

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. ↗

— James Madison

#cannot #capacity #doubted #erudition #female

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#body #flower #his #liberated #nation

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#complex #events #exaggerated #find #funny

Oh, completely liberating because even if you don't do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#bra #completely #dress #even #feel

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#computer #david #excitement #generated #good