#stan

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#head #hundred #instant #only #reproduce

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

Hier denkt man in einfachen mathematischen Kategorien. Wer arbeitet, schafft Geld heran, wer im Ruhestand ist, gibt es aus. ↗

— Núria Añó

#deutsche-sprache #german #humor #inspirational #leben

People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#criticism #double-standards #energy-healing #enlightenment #god

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#even #forgive #oneself #understand

I can't stand the club scene. ↗

— Christine Taylor

#club scene #i #scene #stand

I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#i #punish #ron #stand #stand up

We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed. ↗

— Mawhinney and Sagan

#emotions #learning #stress #teaching #understanding

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#home #just #just do it #preparing #real