#wi

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. ↗

— John Updike

#currency #elder #i #i am #i see

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#environmental #knowingly #nuclear #nuclear war #our

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#arise #choice #decision #human #loss

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#animal #animal world #appears #human #human language

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#almost #any #britain #i #inconceivable

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? ↗

— Kate Chopin

#branches #breathe #chord #detect #ear

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#growing up #i #missionary #school #up

Wishing of all employments is the worst. ↗

— Edward Young

#wishing #worst