#des

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#crusades #equality #goodness #openmindedness #religion

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#complained #deserve #entertaining #heroism #i

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk. ↗

— John Gilpin

#desk #i #life #my life #spend

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#disproportion #great #madness #means #proof

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#destroyed #factory #form #great #models

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#add #color #does #pleasant #quality

As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#coast #constituents #covering #destruction #gulf

I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#during #fear #few #however #hurricanes

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #describe #get #make #model