#red

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#happen #history #knew #littered #never

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#irony #needs #our #power #reduce

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #clear #enumerate #equal #even

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#language #redemption #science #sin

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#beginnings #conveniently #culture #dated #first

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way. ↗

— Della Reese

#am #angels #been #come #could

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too. ↗

— Billy Preston

#earl #grant #had #him #home

You want to spend time with your children even though you are tired so you do all those things. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#even #spend #things #those #though

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#i #lucky #me #never #occurred

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

#got #place #thinking #tired #where