#erna

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#assistance #been #build #coordinator #efforts

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. ↗

— Manfred Eigen

#being #irrelevant #may #model #only

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#animal #being #between #body #dominance

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#circumstances #external #i #never #torturers

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it. ↗

— Charles Fort

#actions #adjust #adjustment #another #equilibrium

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#being #bernard #born #cat #coming

After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#checks #components #fall #flights #international

I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#country #crux #example #for example #gain

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#arena #dunce #either #leaves #must

You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state. ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#called #death #feel #generally #heart