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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#came #crowd #effects #few #first

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. ↗

— John Updike

#few #gagged #his #letters #line

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#cold #going #matter #through #wade

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#feminism #philanthropy #politics #science #women-s-issues

There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#destruction #doubt #havoc #iran #israel

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#actual #breathe #called #eating #grandparents

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#family #feel #get #guilty #had

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#head #his #like #sieve #through

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#between #cut #difference #doing #ego

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#attitude #causes #come #emotion #ideas