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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society. ↗

— Ted Rall

#american society #first #generation #i #i think

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression. ↗

— Ted Rall

#expression #eyes #head #look #lot

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#i #naturally

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#beautiful #beautiful day #being #canyon #day

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#broke #depression #devastated #done #fallen

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#anything #embodied #even #free #god

We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary. ↗

— Gary Ross

#embrace #fuller #just #life #look

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#commercial #during #grave #grave threat #japan

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#become #comforts #creature #day #every

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#cannot #find #god #soul #speaks