#sole

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ↗

— Jane Addams

#ethics #expression #indeed #medium #sole

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#insolence #slavery #freedom

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#compensate #console #given #him #imagination

Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises. ↗

— Anthony Esolen

#man-praises #imagination

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe. ↗

— Toba Beta

#define #formulation #interaction #life #mystery

Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets ↗

— Dean Koontz

#money

La desconfianza, el disimulo, la reserva cortés que cierra el paso al extraño, la ironía, todas, en fin, las oscilaciones psíquicas con que al eludir la mirada ajena nos eludimos a nosotros mismos, son rasgos de gente dominada, que teme y que finge frente al señor. Es revelador que nuestra intimidad jamás aflore de manera natural sin el acicate de la fiesta, el alcohol o la muerte. […] Para salir de sí mismo el siervo necesita saltar barreras, embriagarse, olvidar su condición. Vivir a solas, sin testigos. Solamente en la soledad se atreve a ser. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#nature

We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team. ↗

— J Allard

#before #company #competencies #console #developed

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. ↗

— Tony Benn

#galloping #obsolescence #suffering #today

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. ↗

— William Bennett

#any #assume #child #does #elementary