#van

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#am #career #doing #every #fleeting

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#economic #globalization #increasing #interdependence #islands

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #african #beyond #central #consequences

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certainly #contents #does #fit #fits

Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves. ↗

— Billy Graham

#servant-heart #service #spiritual-gifts #faith

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#class #community #plunder #protection #tax

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#comes #definitive #delivered #even #grunge

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. ↗

— John Doolittle

#basic #been #component #confined #developments

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#because #capitalist #capitalist society #communications #consist

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#being #first #fugitive #had #i