#ura

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing. ↗

— David Maraniss

#capture #cultural #doing #explain #focus

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate. ↗

— Chi McBride

#fairly #going #high #high schools #i

Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self. ↗

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#knowledge #life #natural-beauty #power #wisdom

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ↗

— Robert Morris

#composers #contemporary #create #daunting #encouraging

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system. ↗

— Dennis Moore

#encourage #establish #help #off #people

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along? ↗

— Rachel Klein

#life #supernatural #life

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#answer #army #asked #been #courage

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them? ↗

— Mizuki Nomura

#beauty #comedy #cultural-differences #culture #definition

Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. ↗

— Stephanie Lahart

#encouragement #love-yourself #life

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#assuming #before #body #conditions #die