#vere

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. ↗

— Bill Gates

#change #inaction #into #lulled #next

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

I feel overestimated. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #i feel #overestimated

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#behind #earlier #fortified #militarism #protectionism

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#claims #determined #development #nature #only

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#become #civilization #danger #destruction #developments

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#degree #differences #free #inherent #merely

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#bottomless #day #devastated #discovered #eighteen

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me. ↗

— Ted Lange

#discovered #i #made #me #notice