#ture

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#fit #i #interviewed #kind #know

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#heart #human #human heart #less #literature

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creating #endlessly #exist #go #mature

This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#love #nature #death

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#athletes #believe #children #free #future

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#does #end #good #infrastructure #investing

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #literature #philosophy #art

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#i #i do #just #man #nature

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#fate #future #futures #learned #man

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#artiste #fine #gesture #long #make