#uses

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#evolution #his #history #individual #man

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control. ↗

— David Suzuki

#bags #become #control #dependent #easy

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#bleed #hand #knife #like #logic

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#club #even #houses #love #need

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#change #communism #domination #excuses #first

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#change #communism #domination #excuses #first

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#concerts #course #everyone #fee #good

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #finding #four #great #i

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#along #around #back #bees #dancing

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#causes #except #fear #find #happenings