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Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#automobile #having #made #me #own

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#figured #four #going #holy #i

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#monkey #science #truth #zoo #experience

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? ↗

— Michelangelo

#blind #cannot #clothed #empty #fact

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #day #end #eyes #flame

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. ↗

— Stephanie Zimbalist

#makes #mentally #puzzle #stimulating #think

I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#been #color #consider #fish #how

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#basics #gymnastics #i #started #went

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#choose #films #friends #go #go home

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#alone #back #conversations #emotionally #family