#ena

It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were. ↗

— Avrum Stroll

#categorical #characteristic #demand #epistemological #partial

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#accounts #after #asset #capital #corporation

Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#against #allen #another #any #around

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#came #courage #facts #found #had

We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#flash #in fact #low-maintenance #me #missus

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom. ↗

— Andy Summers

#arena #back #certain #come #does

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#confess #dare #dreams #faith #know

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. ↗

— Uri Geller

#agencies #because #big #even #heads

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them. ↗

— Alfred Sutro

#always #else #foolishness #our #pay

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. ↗

— Robert Taft

#criticism #democratic #democratic government #essential #government