#ss

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. ↗

#adolescence #after #capable #children #compassion

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not. ↗

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city. ↗

— Bob Filner

#board #children #city #diego #elementary

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#cliche #days #different #empire #global

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#essentially #global #may #media #organizations

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#chinese #cold #cold war #despite #during

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#i #london #miss #place #sometimes

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#darkness #deep #generate #i #i can

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#am #day #emptiness #fear #feeling

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died. ↗