#event

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#blue #blue sky #build #clear #dam

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#becomes #consciousness #construed #event #experienced

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#derived #events #had #having #many

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#children #class #down #how #matter

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#abramoff #al #bosses #cards #decisions

What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#chose #create #duress #event #first

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#childhood #decision #dramatically #eventual #fed

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. ↗

— John Forbes Nash

#better #both #eventually #felt #had

Oh you've redecorated! I don't like it. ↗

— Doctor Who

#doctor-who #eleventh-doctor #humor #matt-smith #sci-fi

The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#humor #humor