“Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.” WorldYearsLawPowerfulCommonSawsPiecesNew YorkJudgingEmptyFinancialEightBritishLondonBrilliantAround The WorldRanSoilMost PowerfulChicagoCommerceSingaporeSydneyAcresHong KongShariaCommon LawDubaiSharia Law Author:Michael Strong
“A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.” MenWorldWellsHeartHas BeensSaidHardLastsCoursesDestinyFateJudgingBrokenStonesEmptyOppositesDesertBarrenReckoning Author:Cormac McCarthy
“As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself. 'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didn’t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.' But let me tell you it is not done ― not on an empty road at midnight.” WorldWellsDoneWould BeTurnsMy OwnJudgingHigherShadowEmptyLet MeThings To DoSuggestionsSoarMidnightFrogsUncanny Author:Loren Eiseley
“Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.” IfsAgeSchoolChoicesVirtueJudgingDependsMoralityBehaviorTasksEmptyAssumingOneselfConventionsSpontaneityAssessmentFormalityDecorumInsincere Book:Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.” ReligionAtheismHonestJudgingEmptyShallowScience And ReligionHollowConvergence Book:A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
“If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.” IfsScienceNaturalImpossibleFieldsJudgingActivityResearchEmptyGuiltHistoricalMeritIdleNatural ScienceJudge MeHistorical Research Author:Justus von Liebig