#story

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject. ↗

— Eliot Porter

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Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary. ↗

— Jon Porter

#activities #advance #american #anniversary #been

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#anyone #before #even #going #history

Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#billy wilder #bound #contained #could #create

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. ↗

— Colin Powell

#action #attains #chief #condition #depend

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. ↗

— Colin Powell

#my time #percent #spent #time #world

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. ↗

— Colin Powell

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For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#civilization #defined #family #higher #history

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history. ↗

— David E. Price

#am #any #closely #fact #faith

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes. ↗

— Richard Price

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