#ty

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City. ↗

— Steve Burns

#bother #calm #calm down #city #cleaner

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmology #cosmos #existence #informed #knowledge

I thank the Almighty for the most wonderful 18 years. Far, far, too short a time. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#far #i #most #short #thank

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#city #cool #expect #hip #i

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo... ↗

— Russell Brand

#inspirational #looks #beauty

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. ↗

— John Burroughs

#civilization #development #did #done #eighteen

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. ↗

— John Burroughs

#gathers #good #good thing #little #man

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#allowed #always #away #guns #hell

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#conclusions #congress #detailed #directions #draw

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#control #corporate #dominate #executives #ideas