Going back to the past is not productive.
John L. Flannery
Recitation: by Male by Female
I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.
Jim Mattis
MeEnemyKnowingLikeAroundGuys
Freedom has no history.
Andrew Cohen
FreedomHistory
Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it's a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it's there, and you particularly notice it when it isn't. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal.
John Lanchester
BusinessWelcomePeopleRestaurant
I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
Jeffrey Archer
LifeMenPeopleEvilChanceThree
Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake.
Amanda Knox
MorningHabitSocial MediaMediaBad
I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
LoveMusicListeningVoiceSing
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
Simon Schama
FaithPoliticsWarOptimismAmerica
Life can't die. It's a contradiction.
Ruby Dee
LifeDieContradiction
The vision of the human being is confined today to the physical body. One regards this as a reality; one cannot raise oneself to what is spiritual. The souls who now look upon their own physical bodies with their eyes, and are unable to rise to what is spiritual, were incarnated among earlier peoples as Greeks, as Romans, and as ancient Egyptians.
Rudolf Steiner
TodayVisionEyesSpiritualReality
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Jules Verne
FatherManBlindMayWisest
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.
Douglas Trumbull
SpaceDoingEvolutionMoreAbstract
I have five major corporations, and I operate them. How could I be retired?
Donald Sterling
ThinkLongWhyNeverAnythingGoing
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