#under

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#between #civilization #coat #fragile #hideously

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#agricultural #because #cable #censors #confirm

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#ability #joke #oneself #sense #sense of humor

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#built #ever #experiment #first #first thing

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC. ↗

— David Selby

#appearances #because #contract #did #i

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#advantage #because #big #changes #everything

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#behind #communicate #driven #educated #need

We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free. ↗

— Michael Enzi

#country #ensure #face #free #god

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#happy #her #him #little #lot

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#man #may #men #need #order