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“BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE.... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.”

Mind Heart Ends Hands Spirit Possibility Fit Circles Perceive Firm Innovative Beginnings And Ends

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.”

Firsts Mean Ends Might Force Moral Enemy Air Economic Achieve Military Possibility Direct Destruction Opposition Centre Battlefields Air Force Indirect Air Power Hopping

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.”

Men Two Ideas Ends Universe Animal Pieces Possibility Intellectual Intellect Senses Contradiction Centre Torn Everlasting

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.”

Ends Might Law Strong Waiting Interest Groups Crime Possibility Weak Leaving Circles Arise Pursue Decent Ethical Norm Cowardly

Book:Brute Orbits

Source: Brute Orbits

“I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.”

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.”

Doe Ends Fiction Possibility Approach Pages Tradition Gratification Brooks Dichotomy Broccoli

Author:F. R. Leavis

“We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night?”

Ends Night Water Chance Enemy Possibility Lovers Walking Meetings Metaphor Obvious Bridges Goods Void Traffic Quarrels Casual Walking On Water

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion