#yin

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#destroys #forests #fresh #giving #itself

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#country #going #inclusive #left #make

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#paid #paying #seen #sentences #simply

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#being #changed #could #due #everything

Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire. ↗

— Leonard Rose

#house #like #me #playing #sounded

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind. ↗

— Julius Rosenwald

#always #anything #business #business career #career

This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million. ↗

— Charlotte Ross

#burned #change #get #given #going

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment. ↗

— Gary Ross

#another #controlling #environment #fascism #fears

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#act #bring #civilization #destroy #development

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arms #arms race #before #desire #get