#rely

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. ↗

— Epictetus

#hope #life #neither #nor #rely

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#brave #computer #enough #entirely #guinea

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#black #brought #could #devilish #doubt

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. ↗

— Brian Eno

#anything #good #popular #populist #rarely

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i #like #listen #much #music

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#consumerism #convenience #democracy #democratic #domestic

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#continually #controversial #difficulty #distinguishing #fascinated

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. ↗

— Epicurus

#friendship #greatest #happy #make #much

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. ↗

— Epicurus

#abstract #between #compact #justice #merely

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high