#gen

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#oxygen #soul

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame our Holy Scripture. ... when they produce from any of their books a theory contrary to Scripture ... either we shall have some ability to demonstrate that it is absolutely false, or at least we ourselves will hold it so without any shadow of a doubt. ...let us choose [the doctrine] which appears as certainly the meaning intended by the author. ... For it is one thing to fail to recognize the primary meaning of the writer, and another to depart from the norms of religious belief. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#faith-in-genesis #faith

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#choose #gender #i #ignore #just

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#democratic #generous #most #open #our

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act. ↗

— Gerald Walpin

#acted #general #highest #i #independent