#arc

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. ↗

— Michael Graves

#any #between #equity #function #pragmatic

I'd tell you nice try, but... it wasn't. ↗

— Cynder

#sarcasm #sarcastic-humor #humor

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. ↗

— William Greider

#covering #drama #essentially #events #human

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#anarchy #ernst-jünger #freedom #liberalism #freedom

But then, as I rotated gloopily to check out the scene, who did I see next? Let's just say when your archenemy's trapped you in a place of certain death, and you've survived heroically against all the odds, the last thing you want to see, when you escape at last, is that same archenemy glaring down at you with an expression of annoyed distaste. (Even a different archenemy would have been marginally better.) ↗

— Bartimaeus Trilogy The Amulet of Samarkand

#humor #death

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#appear #determining #difficult #distance #earth

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone. ↗

— John Hannah

#back #bread #discovery #does #education

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success. ↗

— Tom Harkin

#cell research #critical #easing #enormous #federal

However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#case #clear #condition #further #however

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

#mark #sake #search #truth