#uses

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#dried #expected #fled #growth #inspiration

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#exception #exceptional #geniuses #goodness #honor

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss. ↗

— Timothy F. Cahill

#build #houses #like #mechanic #office

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #had #i #joy #longer

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. ↗

— Ed Markey

#cause #causes #cigarettes #common #common knowledge

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#glass #had #slaughterhouses #vegetarian #walls

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#be happy #becoming #causes #consider #denying

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#caring #causes #crime #focusing #got

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#even #every #gymnastics #knew #little

Psychiatry causes so much death. ↗

— Kate Millett

#death #much #psychiatry