#stance

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances. ↗

— Paul Harris

#been #consequence #frontier #indiscriminate #lawlessness

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#existing #freedom #heart #limited #matter

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#assistance #because #condition #disability #full

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#circumstances #color #content #crystal #greatly

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it. ↗

— Stu Jackson

#cannot #circumstances #here #just #message

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#believe #best #choose #concerts #i

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ↗

— Carl Jung

#both #chemical #contact #like #meeting

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#consequently #descended #distance #ground #had

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. ↗

— Leon Kass

#about #altogether #children #controversy #important