#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

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. ↗

— Duncan Hunter

#effectiveness #fence #fences #israel #me

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#earth #equator #evolution #favor #form

It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#always #cop #i #incendiary #interests

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#drew #first #heath #i #lessons