#verse

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ↗

— Margaret Young

#first #must #need #order #really

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#book #convey #cover #eyes #i

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#around #been #billions #bubbles #bursts

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. ↗

— Erik Larson

#disinclined #i #instantly #me #perverse

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#common #common language #converse #equates #finds

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#among #any #group #individual #just

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#battle #fight #here #home #must

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#create #created #god #his #image

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#brothers #cause #chicago #during #farm