#sm

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. ↗

— William James

#becomes #fails #fulfill #organism #potentialities

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#extremism #fight #idea #naive #off

With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#different #enthusiasm #fans #generation #much

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. ↗

— Mencius

#another time #becomes #else #evil #exists

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#babies #begin #cease #come #glands

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#children #extent #fellow #his #must

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#best #better #campaign #circus #couple

I like throwing snowballs at small children. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#i #like #small #small children #throwing

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#different #different genres #different types #genres #i