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The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#arabs #blood #both #currency #forever

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#children #drop #go #him #i

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#boundaries #explore #given #increasingly #message

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#between #difference #geometrical #geometry #nothing

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#biggest influence #dead #grateful #grateful dead #influence

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#connection #different #discouragement #germ #joint

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#both #cooking #everything #full #i

Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones. ↗

— Mark Matteson

#attention #awareness #be-aware #habits #inspirational

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#bill #children #debt #father #forward

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#depression #economy #government #great #great depression