#ura

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#am #brain #everything #first #horrors

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story. ↗

— Dan McCurrigan

#courage #death #emotional #hero #humanity

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#believe #brutalized #capitalism #capitalist #deal

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' ↗

— Levi Strauss

#chosen #eat #good #natural #species

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#certainties #creativity #go #let go #requires

Despair gives courage to a coward. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#coward #despair #gives

I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#child #children #creative #encouraged #father

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#dead #either #fur #i #like

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#human #human society #inequalities #life #marvel

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

#anywhere #beneficiaries #big #constituencies #farmers