#bs

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#good #good deeds #holy #learning #only

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#always #answers #ask #certain #face

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there. ↗

— Frank Miller

#being there #best #create #efforts #i

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#music #obsessed #performing #songs #teenager

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division. ↗

— Hans Kung

#change #church #community #division #few

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#changes #differentiation #eminently #exists #god

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#nature #noble #observes #often #only

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#after #again #almost #arrives #because

We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#com #dead #depends #live #realize