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For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim. ↗

— Xenophon

#barley #beer #drank #drink #held

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#i #just #noticed #teenager #thing

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#china #chinese #home #how #itself

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#alive #existence #keep #mind #my own

My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases. ↗

— Shinya Yamanaka

#cell #clinical #conduct #decade #develop

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them. ↗

— Shinya Yamanaka

#avoid #embryos #get #goal #now

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#buildings #easily #environment #find #future

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. ↗

— Kit Williams

#advertising #human #instinct #listen #makes

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this. ↗

— Mo Yan

#become #down #famous #had #heard

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#around #back #coming #going #head