#sid

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. ↗

#darwin #evidence #evolution #grant #president

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#censored #considerations #dream #dreams #economic

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#bible #christian #church #close #consider

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#consider #duck #family #hands #least

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. ↗

— John Adams

#beloved #considered #desire #discovered #dispositions

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

#between #cape #could #days #feet

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#both #his #man #must #own

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#constant #culture #day #fallow #follies

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. ↗

— Aesop

#outside #poor #poor substitute #show #substitute

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers. ↗