#ton

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#biologically #book #community #community action #happens

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had. ↗

— Randall Terry

#clinton #ever #had #i #i believe

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts ↗

— Stephen King

#it #lisp #stutter #therapy #tongue-twister

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#city #washington

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#atlanta #audience #boston #ceremonial #dance

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#astonishing #bolt #cell #cooled #derived

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#forty #forty years #had #lobby #needs

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #does #good #good man #himself

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people. ↗

— James Agee

#none #off #people #picture #right

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton. ↗

— Ian Anderson

#clapton #eric #eric clapton #flute #happy