#serve

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one. ↗

— Joshua Homme

#enough #everyone #get #lucky #musician

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. ↗

— Jane Howard

#around #avoid #children #doom #fact

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#deserves #ever #falls #him #love

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#dog #fight #occasionally #often #starts

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #civilization #developments #every #here

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

#emotions #every #external #external objects #find

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. ↗

— James Humes

#even #leader #leaders #leadership #mind

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#equality #his #human #like #loudly

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them. ↗

— David Icke

#bar #deny #down #express #families