#sm

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean. ↗

— David Zinczenko

#any #chain #determined #down #drive

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal. ↗

— John Burns

#cohesive #compromising #consciously #far #firmly

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement. ↗

— Ken Burns

#based #choices #cynicism #disengagement #fear

Patriotism is the religion of hell. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#patriotism #religion

I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.' ↗

— Steve Burns

#clues #day #every #every day #i

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmology #cosmos #existence #informed #knowledge

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. ↗

— John Burroughs

#deed #greatest #intention #smallest #than

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#because #been #business #caused #folks

Communism will win. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#will #win

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#act #around #caring #compliment #ear