#thin

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#between #character #corruption #delicate #eternal

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught. ↗

— James P. Hogan

#carved #crooked #into #kids #logical

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#feel #once #really #see #then

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#faith #life #living #makes #something

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#because #best #between #block #blocks

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#breathing #first #important #important thing #life

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#hood #making #men #only #path

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#distractions #everything #points

All things can be forgiven if we can progress. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#forgiven #progress #things

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#bright #except #fear #feeling #future