#aim

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gaiman #god #humor #humor

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#civil liberties #claim #compromised #even #fighting

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. ↗

— James Allen

#aim #devote #legitimate #purpose #single

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #church #communion #contradiction #excludes

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#argument #because #bogus #claim #completely

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#cultivation #existence #human #human existence #mind

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#country #generally #his #johnson #men

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#attention #barbarians #because #closer #course

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#conquered #control #dependent #energy #europe

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#critics #doing #elements #ever #formula