#pears

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#control #country #disappears #enabled #england

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#close #comes #intuition #perception #reality

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#due #earth #moreover #motion #rather

This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears. ↗

— John Culberson

#al #arab #authorities #border #connections

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#culture #history #human #human culture #novel

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true. ↗

— Patrick Kavanagh

#new #newspapers #often #seldom #true

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person. ↗

— Virgil

#beautiful #beautiful person #even #fairer #person

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#after #because #before #capacity #disappears

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#above #appears #bulk #icebergs #like

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#always #appears #certainty #everyday #guise