#ties

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#adopt #communities #existence #explain #explanation

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. ↗

— Diane Lane

#because #become #becomes #capacities #directors

We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#colleagues #combat #congress #continue #ensure

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#ants #certainties #chained #clinging #like

That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#actor #anxieties #big #forth #get

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it. ↗

— Patrick Troughton

#fantasy #far #i #implied #never

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#congress #control #extremely #greater #gulf

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#complicated #most #most powerful #opportunities #powerful

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#against #born #claim #connection #despite

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#good life #hold #life #loyalties #right