#rounds

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#context #create #death #destroy #disappear

sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt. ↗

— William Faulkner

#faith

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#detach #new #old #old thing #surrounds

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself. ↗

— Tom Watson

#i #last #most #myself #person

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#cloud #dissipate #doubt #figures #never

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility. ↗

— Dorothy Height

#caring #colors #coming #creeds #dignity

I lived at admiralty house from 2002 until 2006 on advice from special branch on security grounds as defence secretary. The alternative of providing comprehensive security at my personal property would have entailed significant extra costs to the taxpayer. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#alternative #branch #comprehensive #costs #defence

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beliefs #call #extremely #forgotten #grounds

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#better #endure #giving #moving #name

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adverse #background #backgrounds #children #educational