#cons

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#guilty #guilty conscience #invention #mother

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. ↗

— Morris West

#acceptance #always #apt #condition #conflict

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed. ↗

— Randy West

#again #appear #consistently #demand #needed

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#beg #begger #begging #coin #coins

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

#government #had #naturally #our #proceed

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#comprise #conservatives #electorate

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. ↗

— Byron White

#busy #choices #clause #constantly #courts

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory. ↗

— Mark White

#attend #boston #conservatory #couple #england

Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and what better way to honor that than reveling in the intricacies of the brain? If there were any answers to the human condition, if an immortal soul made its home anywhere, it was in its spongy gray folds. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#consciousness #soul #dreams

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill. ↗

— Theodore White

#believes #between #conservative #downhill #everybody