#side

I am a man for whom the outside world exists. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#exists #i #i am #man #outside

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#fearless #more #outsider #you #young

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#alone #around #being #being content #completely

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#certainty #considerations #further #give #hope

People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#friends #know #me #people #side

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#composition #consider #formed #i #kinds

Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#adult #age #aside #audience #be the first

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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