#stand

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#around #community #extraordinary #here #i

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#how #i #lives #lost #many

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#after #american #art #intact #into

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors. ↗

— Bernard Liautaud

#enough #find #france #makes #needs

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. ↗

— Willard Libby

#atom #atomic #atomic energy #dependent #energy

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#speaking #stupid #understands #who #wisdom

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#age #opinions #our #understanding #weakest

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#creation #determinism #evidence #free #free will

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#applause #demand #hinders #means #our

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#also #amazing #benefits #besides #current