#mat

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#cannot #diplomats #fortunate #long #noses

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#asian #asian countries #countries #european #even

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real. ↗

— John Clayton

#exist #made #matter #real #reality

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. ↗

— John Clayton

#approximately #between #english #english language #jesus

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#becomes #clear #crises #feared #force

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. ↗

— John Clayton

#god #logical #offer #perspective #practical

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#allowance #back #douglas #grammar #grammar school

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#all things #alphabet #already #books #covered

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#mark #mature #out #pointless #programmer

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!' ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#attentions #because #between #free #go