#tru

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#ask #because #cannot #educate #educated

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#best #bizarre #competing #competition #competitor

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke. ↗

— Julian Clary

#end #get #gets #good #i

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle. ↗

— Albert Claude

#create #during #experiment #live #lives

Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true. ↗

— Paul Kane

#because #come #does #dream #everything

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him. ↗

— John Clayton

#fact #god #grace #him #instructed

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

#attained #fidelity #purpose #through #true

I can count on one hand how many people I trust. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#hand #how #i #i can #many

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#better #fittest #had #men #out

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #because #bodies #combined #come