#world

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#curse #get #idealism #into #materialism

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#amoral #bad #believe #deeds #makes

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#advance #agricultural #basis #causation #darwin

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#being #being content #content #got #nobody

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#film #highest #industry #most #risk

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#dead #giving #industrialized #last #nations

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they? ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#all day #around #crazy #day #film

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me. ↗

— Charles Manson

#dangerous #i #me #men #most

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#art #believe #copyright #forced #god

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#always #bad #bad boy #boy #cup