#vic

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

#democratic #everything #fresh #how #image

I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. ↗

— Don Young

#constitution #disservice #federal #federal government #few

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#continued #conviction #endured #faith #israel

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;! ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#ataraxy #coming-of-age #fathers-and-sons #philosophical #age

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #life #morality #youth #age

Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still complain that the good old morals have decayed, and accuse modern culture of having led to loose living, everyone is convinced that all sexual wrongs represent a symptom of decadence peculiar to our age. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#morals #sex #vice #age

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. ↗

— Vash Young

#advance #aside #brushing #comes #finer

When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things. ↗

— Lewis Nordan

#television #age

Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeply Must take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.' Thus spake the awful aging couple Whose heart the years had turned to rubble. But the little children, to save any brother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#advice-to-young-children #children #age

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#few #masters #most #novices #picture