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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.


E. T. A. Hoffmann


#contend #continually #creating #destruction #goes

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.


Charles de Secondat


#ally #attacked #been #cases #enemy

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.


Harry Seidler


#advanced technology #after #allowing #architecture #buildings

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#account #acquired #brought #call #day

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.


Sophie Swetchine


#attaining #end #force #grows #important

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.


Larry Ellison


#call #cloud #computing #i #internet

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.


Howard Finster


#building #chapel #could #dome #done

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.


Tom Flynn


#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.


Daniel Greenberg


#change #changed #culture #deny #gone

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.


Michel Foucault


#optimism #resistance #struggle #optimism