#marks

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#action #directly #dispense #marks #midwife

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#five #insane #marks #mind #sign

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#deeply #even #friendship #into #life

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#change #convulsive #demographic #huge #leaves

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#among #contemporary #country #expression #his

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#congress #during #earmarks #faithful #first

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#experience #game #indeed #making #marks

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#immortality #itself #marks #mathematics #off

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#behind #cares #else #great #just