#sm

In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time. ↗

— David Rittenhouse

#axis #balls #each #given #index

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#attack #come #defend #destroy #family

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#another #career #finally #found #i

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#drink #eat #girl #guest #leave

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#action #cunning #dose #egoism #ends

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#athenians #bear #burdens #collectively #even

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#criminal #eternal-life #freedom #freedom-of-speech-dissent #freedom-of-thought

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family. ↗

— Ann Robinson

#affect #bad #call #drinking #family

I’d love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I’d tell him, “It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#blind #key-west #optimism #optimistic #art

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#going #impact #mosquito #small #think