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Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age. ↗

— Kelly Millar

#any #civilization #down #generation #handed

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#general #impulses #organized #our #preservation

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#agonizing #always #america #because #forgotten

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#camera #house #looking #marks #out

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. ↗

— James Chiles

#dirty #dollar #organized #sharp #side

My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy. ↗

— Bode Miller

#around #babies #because #children #cool

In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy. ↗

— Frank Miller

#because #between #black #black and white #book

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#bind #common #common sense #heed #heritage

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. ↗

— Henry Miller

#field #horizon #ignorance #increase #knowledge

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. ↗

— Henry Miller

#any #bad #city #feeble #feeling