#ect

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. ↗

— George Plimpton

#because #being #bit #generation #i

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ↗

— William Plomer

#connect #creativity #seemingly #unconnected

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object. ↗

— Plotinus

#fitted #knowing #object #organ

If you bring the blanket, I’ll bring the warmth.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#more #objective #quantum #sense #simply

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#commercial #directing #doing #enjoy #i

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred

By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees. ↗

— Jon Porter

#complete #criminal #direct #districts #employees

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#call #double #first #i #objects

I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game. ↗

— Paul Pierce

#best #defense #game #get #going