#age

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #effect #endeavour #excluded #indeed

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#agent #almost #beautiful #great #guided

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bit #ever #go #i #i think

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#ear #had #i #languages #pick

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#insect #left #our #present #tragedies

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#belief #flourishes #intelligence #only #withers

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. ↗