#accord

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#democratic #dictatorship #fig #hide #leaves

If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#being #company #compensated #good #good company

In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#advantage #called #choice #chose #get

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ago #around #billions #caused #collapsing

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#amount #attributed #best #cases #control

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#accused #between #choice #given #heresy

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#angle #examines #minds #state #them

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. ↗

— Maimonides

#astronomy #between #certainly #comprehending #desirous

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. ↗

— Walter Martin

#christ #christian #jesus #jesus christ #know