"So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men."

-- Barry S. Strauss

#Dark Quotes #Men Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?”

Source : Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”
“I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.”
“Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.”
“A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.”
“The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.”
“The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.”
“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.”
“To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.”

Source : Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1915). “The American Federationist”

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