#posed

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#i #medium #never #opposed #preference

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. ↗

— Michael Behe

#basic #causes #cease #complex #composed

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#against #decision #differ #everyone #exposed

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#destroy #divine #does #faith #imposed

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#everyday #everyday people #going #i #i think

But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#between #did #enjoy #i #jason

A painting that is well composed is half finished. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#composed #finished #half #painting #well

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country. ↗

— Donna Brazile

#election #exposed #history #our #some

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#around #attack #country #detect #duty

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

#composed #composer #i #like #makes