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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

#art #border #civilization #course #flowers

I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears. ↗

— Will Steger

#bears #i #polar #save #think

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#appears #good #good action #inevitable #mark

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#give #good #himself #kick #man

And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#did #given #grab #happened #her

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bit #child #child abuse #children #crushing

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America. ↗

— Ben Stein

#allowed #am #america #beings #did

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#faith #god #i #maniac #raving

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. ↗

— Ben Stein

#charlatans #dictators #engineer #equal #everyone

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that. ↗

— Ben Stein

#coming #doing #i #immense #into