#than

I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#born #corset #happier #i #never

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs. ↗

— Gotye

#bunch #give #gives #greater #hope

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#deeper #denial #even #extensive #falsely

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#aspire #hero #merely #rather #than

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#before #ever #growing #jargon #most

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#advice #grave #joke #more #sometimes

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#afterwards #awake #beforehand #better #lie

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#courteous #courtesy #equally #injustice #little

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#better #business #ease #else #even