#ali

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#realism #experience

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#eyes #i #life #once #opened

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#enormous #enough #going #i #i think

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. ↗

— August Bebel

#atheism #called #domain #economics #politics

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. ↗

— Julien Benda

#beautiful #europe #honors #ill #inform

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#care #colleagues #congress #correct #coverage

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#film #more #quality #realistic #tends

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#atheism #belief #less #many #modernity

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#became #cannot #clear #conditions #deeply