#rely

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. ↗

— James Gould Cozzens

#any #anything #drain #other #outside

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#any #does #help #his #live

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s. ↗

— Francis Crick

#asked #colleagues #four #gene #merely

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#conception #consequences #country #democracy #did

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#begin #format #get #got #i

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#doubt #endure #entirely #expected #face

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#around #break #community #development #first

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. ↗

— Democritus

#good #means #merely #rather #wrong

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#blood #blood pressure #care #covered #example

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ↗

— Michael Korda

#attitude #consideration #detailed #enough #good