#rin

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race. ↗

— Richard Powers

#luxury #men #only #race #white

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #devices #infernal #infernal-devices #life

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. ↗

— Archibald Primrose

#bear #effect #electrical #few #photography

Do not look down with disdain on what Christ spent so much to achieve for you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#agu-jaachynma-n-e #dreams #fulfilling-purpose #higher-life #higher-living

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#africa #best #dangerous #had #house

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#bringing #evolutionary #four #human #human nature

You can't move mountains by whispering at them. ↗

— Pink

#move #them #whispering #you

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#circle #consideration #eager #extend #factory

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#any #belongs #caesar #fault #finding