#mona

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#based #be different #beings #difference #different

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#ideal #influence #monad #only #over

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. ↗

— Bronislaw Malinowski

#find #forge #life #may #monastery

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#decisions #i #kid #lemon #lemonade

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#am #direction #evolve #feel #i

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#commonality #experience #humane #makes #most

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#being #british #country #definitely #english

I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog whilst out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#apart #beginning #being #bitten #born

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. ↗

— Noel Coward

#been #just #lisa #looks #mona