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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blessings #crystal #desert #die #gospel

I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#club #good #happy #here #i

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#break #difficult #down #even #extremely

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side. ↗

— Frank Lampard

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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dependent #easily #mechanisms #our #precarious

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#any #care #country #doctor #down

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blanks #children #education #enormous #facts

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#becomes #brought #conviction #directed #easily

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#difficulty #disposition #education #find #gratify

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#away #choose #elevated #every #every time