#long

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#chance #dies #every #existing #itself

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#detail #distinguish #longer #told #victory

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#another #because #community #involve #longer

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#existed #i #long #may #member

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#directed #grammar #henceforth #language #longer

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#belonging #between #category #common #creates

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#ability #away #carving #certain #doing

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it. ↗

— Dan Savage

#does #drag #dressed #enough #feel

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#evolution #illogical #long #presumption #target