I Quotes
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“In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?”
“In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of hatred, it can never be used in God's name to justify violence.”
“In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.”
“In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.”
Source: Translations from the Russian
“In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.”
“In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…”
“In a year's time, he's a year older.”
“In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to them... Being steady with mindfulness as an anchor for all the changes we go through is the way we practice forbearance. And you can employ this same method anywhere anytime: just pay close attention to the details of what is going on internally and externally. Don't flinch, don't run away. Trust what happens. Take your stand there." (71)”
Source: Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls
“In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.”
Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.”
“In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.”
“In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.”
“In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.”
“In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.”
Source: Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985
“In about one-third of credit card consolidations, within a short period of time, the cards come back out of the wallet, and in no time at all, they're charged back up. Then you're in an even worse position, because you have the credit card debt and the consolidation loan to worry about. You're in a hole that's twice as deep - and twice as steep.”
“In Abraham’s formula, the Hanif interrogates reality not as a cynic but as a healer, diagnosing injuries in order to repair them. Indeed, Muslim derived from the ancient Semitic root S-L-M, literally “to repair cracks in city walls.” As the integrity of monotheism erodes over time, repairers need to assess the damage and then get to work restoring the fractures”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.”
“In absence of consciousness, human beings would merely be animated material objects. Without the synergistic impact of consciousness, free will, and perception of a cohesive self, which act to direct human conduct, many of the qualities that we associate with our humanness would be moot or superfluous delusions including laughter and pain, memories and thoughts, love and anger, imagination and dreams. Without consciousness and free will, humankind would lack the ability to choose right from wrong and there could be no mental discipline directing each person’s lifestyle, attitudes, and belief systems.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“In Absentia by Stewart Stafford
Marbled mirror's stubbled face,
Hollow grimace back at me,
Each line a verdict crease,
From a rigged jury decree.
Denial's chant, the siren's call,
Dared me to climb meeker backs,
Those perps and their victims,
The fading dust upon the tracks.
Deep scars from a traitor's blade,
Like from some coroner's skit,
Staggering down memory lane,
Déjà vu choking on a peach pit.
Then karma's trapdoor gives,
The past is not a partner sparred,
Hubris's caw now a trembling chick,
Wet rope creaks in hangman's yard.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“In absolute numbers of people killed, the quarter century of tyranny (1929–53) of Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) over the Soviet Union ranks as the second deadliest regime in history, after that of his disciple Mao Zedong (1893–1976), who was responsible for even more deaths in Communist China between 1949 and 1976.”
Source: Life in Stalin's Soviet Union
“In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.”
“In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.”
“In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.”
“In absorbing the good of someone, even bowing is an act of rising.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.”
“In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and our capacity for creativity. While this has some applications in the world, I think it leads to a distance from the world. Going to Congo was for me an act of seeking proximity, of breaking that distance. With abstraction, which is brilliant and vain, you divorce yourself from any kind of proximity to other people.”
“In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of operations are those peculiar results which correspond to the nature of the subjects of operation.”
“In abundance of words, offense will not be lacking but one who restrains his lips is wise.”
“In abundance prepare for scarcity.”
“In academia, the model that we are taught; that we are told in most fields - not the arts, and not the experimental sciences either - but many, many fields, [the model] is:
- You have an idea,
- You accumulate everything that anyone has ever written about that idea,
- You become familiar with what everyone has already said about it,
- And from there, you cobble together the pieces: the evidence either for or against your [idea], or you just review what they've done and you create something that's a little bit new.
Over in science space I call this "Brick in the Wall Science".
It's valuable that some people are doing Brick in the Wall Science but you will always have the same foundation of the house that you started with with Brick in the Wall Science, and it's possible the foundation of the house you started with is not the foundation that you want or that is true. [...]
[With Brick in the Wall Science] you can't have revolutionary ideas. You can't have paradigm shifts.”
“In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.”
“In academic circles influences by Said, any reference to acts of 'terrorism' was soon regarded as off-limits, a reflection of Zionist efforts to discredit the legitimate aspirations of a subject population by casting aspersions on their so-called freedom fighters. In this way, 'blaming the victim' was deployed as an ideological weapon that might constrain debate.”
Source: The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
“In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.”
“In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.”
“In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.”
“In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole.”
“In acceptance of the limitations that life imposes on us and in knowing that we can choose our attitude in any given circumstance and make the best of our situation, we throw open the window to hygge.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections.”
Source: Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
“In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.”
Source: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
“In accepting my lot, I also came to understand that suffering was universal, and that there wasn't anyone who was without pain of some kind; the difference between other people's suffering and mine was merely one of degree.”
Source: Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf
“In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver”
“In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation.”
Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
“In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.”
“In accordance with my duty, I do not pursue any selfish goal. The only favor I ask is to continue to put all my personal earnings to good use in the expansion of our foreign interests. [...] What I have sought in Africa, what I shall find more and more if people follow me, that, together with the progress of civilization, is work for our industrial firms and consequently for their numerous employees.”
“In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.”
“In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.”