#lis

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#always #bad #cannot #common #common sense

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#corporate #domain #environmentalism #exclusive #govern

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#english #everything #furniture #heavy #i

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#grasped #journalism #literature #once #read

I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you. ↗

— Tre Cool

#case #exactly #how #i #i do

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#christendom #civilisations #clash #indeed #islam

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

#her #line #listened #long #long line

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#establishes #invents #merely #nothing #philosophy

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#been #books #down #exception #however

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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