#kind

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. ↗

— Timothy White

#breeds #complacency #familiarity #familiarity breeds #kind

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#alone #ambition #best #employed #enjoyed

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#animals #cats #cats-being-needed #dogs #dogs-and-cats

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#kindness #language #universal #universal language #warm

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#enable #eternal #eternal life #life #mankind

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#death #disease #embrace #fears #free

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#been #end #god #hope #kind

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam. ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#between #culture #differentiate #first #important

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show. ↗

— David Wain

#belongs #conceived #entirely #existed #group

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#always #another #because #different #director