#genera

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#clique #first #generation #group #identity

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#destroyed #excesses #generation #great #ideals

I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#amount #between #brothers #exercise #first

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner. ↗

— David Tudor

#amplification #any #components #electronic #equipment

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#generally #great #great talent #kinds #life

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bird #flies #generally #happy #human

Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For instance, Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as well established as general relativity. Yet how many physicists, while arguing for the truth of Einsteinian physics, will claim that general relativity is as well established as Darwin’s theory? Zero. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#einstein #evolution #general-relativity #hard-science #macro-evolution

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#saints #spirit #spiritual-life #unregenerate #worth

I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now it’s gone. You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in the world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.’ ‘It might be just some trend that came and went,’ I said. ‘But for us, it’s our life. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#time #younger-generation #youth #life

Architecture in general is frozen music. ↗

— Friedrich von Schelling

#frozen #general #music