“Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.” TwoFeelingsNightHouseFeltBlackCasesBearsStonesHuntersExhilarationVermontBrotherly Author:Edward Hoagland
“In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.” StatesSchoolChristianChurchReligiousCasesStudentsTenStonesCourtSeparationSupremeCopiesCommandmentsSupreme CourtChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateTen CommandmentsUnconstitutional Author:David Barton
“The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.” Has BeensCasesRocksBandApproachStonesReleaseRadicalRollingFormalExtensionsRolling StonesRock Bands Author:Jon Landau
“A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.” ShouldMayLittlesCharacterMightJoyCasesPathAmbitionStonesAdversityProsperityProphecyFoeAcquaintanceTrue FriendPrecious ThingsTraverse Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181 Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181
“We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone's throw from Abkhazia - that is, in de jure Georgia.” DoneProblemMovingGamesForgetCasesSecurityConflictStonesHotAimWinterTerrorAbsenceSpotsOlympicsSiteBotheredPutinGeorgiaOlympic GamesTerror AttacksWinter OlympicsSochi Author:Garry Kasparov
“It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our tools since stone tools, and since the written word, and what we are seeing now is just a deepening of that. But it has always been the case. We have always done this.” Has BeensSelfDoneCasesWrittenSeeingToolsStonesSpeciesFeedbackInnateLoopsWritten Word Author:Jason Silva