#ture

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#bear #bitterness #borne #exertions #fruit

Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#assured #cannot #country #existing #forward

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#clear #first-person #hitchcock #like #literature

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#changed #efficient #food #longer #nature

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. ↗

— Amos Oz

#cultured #more #parents #scale #something

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime. ↗

— Frank Oz

#before #book #everything #got #i

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#already #always #could #else #felt

When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home. ↗

— Al Pacino

#because #being #being in love #came #come

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company. ↗

— Larry Page

#big #carry #come #companies #company

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#awash #bodybuilding #chemistry #defying #mathematics