#vin

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. ↗

— Jules Massenet

#behind #departed #each #earthly #i

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#above #america #bring #country #different

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#does #ennobles #happiness #makes #men

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#bore #bores #cleaner #eager #everything

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. ↗

— Robert Casey

#living #pay #pluralistic #price #society

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums. ↗

— Theresa May

#could #doing #giving #government #level

We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact. ↗

— Theresa May

#across #coming #cutting #drop #economic

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep. ↗

— John Mayer

#being silly #compassionate #completely #curves #deep

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#always #change #different #different view #generational

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#classified #even #found #genus #had