#con

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#any #believing #christians #conceive #continued

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#available #before #completion #considered #finished

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#believe #conservative #free #free markets #government

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#british #controls #elite #more #much

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' ↗

— Ralph Nader

#dad #father #i #me #need

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#against #come #developed #did #economy

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#convinced #energies #female #gender #i

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#ball #because #bit #camera #contend

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#conviction #ethics #personal #science #truth