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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

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• My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Way

• I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Different
  • Mountain
  • Someone

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Great
  • Food
  • Dog

• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

  

  U Thant
  • War
  • Modern
  • Victor

• Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Sharing

• Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Feeling
  • Religion
  • Language

• Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • inspirational
  • Looks

• Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Child
  • Trade
  • Labor

• There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.

  

  R. A. Lafferty
  • Up
  • Attitude

• When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Happy
  • Angry
  • Hopeful

• For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Truth

• For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Endurance

• That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • Universe

• A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Film
  • Period
  • Gift

• When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

  

  William Sadler
  • Writing
  • Los Angeles
  • Cab

• If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word of honor is God in man."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Character
  • Trust

• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Vision
  • Heavens
  • Moral Law

• Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Civilization
  • Devices
  • Enormous