#urns

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#after #chance #continue #death #delighted

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bad fortune #bows #down #earth #faces

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#anything #being #cannot #conceive #dissolved

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#act #dualism #healing #heals #here

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#enormous #fundamental #our #returns #voting

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#out #politics #seen #sometimes #think

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#difficulty #early #economics #getting #i

There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#actually #against #bottle #bring #bucks

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! ↗

— Billy Sunday

#backsliding #cast #causes #church #conversion

You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns. ↗

— John Sununu

#any #ask #into #mall #mitt