#gm

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#communicate #different #existence #hardly #intrinsic

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there. ↗

— David Miliband

#always #anything #clash #clear #closed

You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually. ↗

— John Milius

#going #judgment #know #never #nothing

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him. ↗

— William Minto

#belief #doubt #him #independent #joy

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#door #enigma #i #knocked #life

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#alone #any #assistants #case #creates

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#augmenting #expressing #forward #here #i

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#contained #judgment #trying #understand

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

#back #believe #fact #i #i believe

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#die #dogma #fall #men #upon