#them

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#become #careful #choose #friends #like

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#person #responsibilities #shoulder #them #who

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#been #coin #i #interested #me

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#between #collections #deal #dissolve #distinctions

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#compulsively #longer #need #only #real

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist. ↗

— John Stossel

#else #ever #everybody #everybody else #got

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert. ↗

— John Stossel

#fight #get #hear #keeps #liberals

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't. ↗

— John Stossel

#armies #borders #country #cross #either

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. ↗

— John Strachan

#gentleness #had #hearts #left #meekness