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In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa. ↗

— John H. Speke

#among #appeared #came #describe #during

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#few #long #none #peace #soul

I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#face #get #gop #government #groups

I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#american #american public #around #case #doing

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#album cover #anything #around #attention #band

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #blink #connections #dead #doing

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. ↗

— Freya Stark

#invincible #nature #one thing #the one thing #thing

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#because #bigger #her #hitch #kill

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#consider #deserving #families #female #first

We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious. ↗

— David Steinberg

#hilarious #other #side #were