#lem

All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god having apparently ordered Moses to lead the Jews to one of the very few parts of the region with absolutely no oil at all), that would be bad enough. But in addition, it involved roosting on top of an ever-growing population that did not welcome the newcomers. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#israel #israeli-palestinian-conflict #jerusalem #jews #mediterranean-basin

Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#solving-problems #religion

It had been a long night already, and now here I was, locked in another fight to the death. Sometimes it just didn't pay to leave the house. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#elemental-assassin #gin-blanco #death

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#science #solaris #science

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for ↗

— Alexander Fleming

#science #science

I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire." His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. "Okay, so maybe our problems aren't like other couples. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #repartee #problems

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#instrumentalism #problem-solving #problems

The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken. ↗

— Bree Despain

#the-dark-divine #problems

The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan) ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#problems

Stop thinking, and end your problems. ↗