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Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#any #argument #begin #going #half

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#any #come #conviction #direction #me

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. ↗

— Jack Vance

#books #enormous #i #influence #instance

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#anything #because #before #being #bond

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues. ↗

— Robert Cray

#anything #better #blues #could #flowers

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. ↗

— Francis Crick

#amino #bases #biochemical #biochemistry #ever

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us. ↗

— George Vancouver

#british #capturing #declaration #martinez #robbing

I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#inspirational #symbolic #beauty

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#american flag #belief #carried #carry #cloth

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#bible #column #journalism #magazine #objective