#th

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players. ↗

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. ↗

— Gary Becker

#blacks #both #calculate #capital #different

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. ↗

— Julien Benda

#attached #man #merchant #much #nations

There is no such thing as the United Nations. ↗

— John Bolton

#such #thing #united #united nations

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

You're on earth. There's no cure for that. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#earth #you

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#i #knowledge #now #then

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think. ↗

— David Beckham

#brain #everyone #got #haven #i

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. ↗