#we

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that. ↗

— Paul Lynde

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It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music. ↗

— Cheryl Lynn

#college #decided #had #high #high school

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#between #biology #branches #defined #epoch

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#because #bigger #challenge #got #harder

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#class #conveying #country #degrees #dialects

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. ↗

— George MacDonald

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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#destroying #environment #fond #governments #including

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. ↗

— George MacDonald

#down #man #today #tomorrow #weigh

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#answered #away #been #come #cultures

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. ↗

— George MacDonald

#bursts #decay #fresh #husk #life