#workings

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet. ↗

— Mary Bono

#economy #federal #fine #functioning #inner

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#clear #covert #even #governing #hiding

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960. ↗

— Ruth First

#apartheid #areas #aside #began #early

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#best #devised #fruit #fundamental #i

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#appropriate #cannot #church #civil #civil society

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#curiosity #force #human #know #natural

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#answer #civilisation #conduct #first-class #how

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? ↗

— Pablo Casals

#cunning #heart #his #indeed #machines

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him. ↗

— Owen D. Young

#future #him #himself #man #men

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys. ↗

— Krista Allen

#i #i love #inner #just #know