#cat

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#catastrophe #country #heightened #inevitably #national

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#europe #magnificent #maimed #medieval #mightiest

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#beyond #catholic #catholic church #church #desirable

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#become #change #claus #domesticated #god

When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#accusing #always #card #come #concerned

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#college education #education #five #knowledge #learn

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films. ↗

— Paul Auster

#anything #author #complicated #film #films

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#canterbury #class #defined #education #england

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethics #even #expansive #intoxication #new

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#education #himself #man #purpose #sunset