#iona

...the human soul is a divine non-substance. A spirit that permeates our flesh, dwells in our conscious, and rules our subconscious self. It makes us cling to life even when we no longer want to embrace it. It makes us hope in the most desperate of circumstances. It gives our dream shape, our inspiration form, our love its timeless beauty." From The Cartesian Machine ↗

— Nick Tran

#beauty

Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran. ↗

— John C. Stennis

#critical #freedom #including #international #international community

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#behavior #only #rational #reactive #reflex

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#our #realize #revolutionary #sense #should

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources. ↗

— Greg Walden

#budgetary #catastrophic #communities #ecosystems #federal

The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fair #inspirational #life #unfair #experience

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. ↗

— Herbert Read

#creeds #emotional #forms #grouping #intellectual

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#arizona #capital #constitutional #defendants #excepting

Know or listen to those who know. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#know #listen #those #who

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#debt #excessive #national #national debt #us