#mentation

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#debate #ineptitude #malice #norman-g-finkelstein #smear-campaigns

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #matter #mental #mental attitude

We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme. ↗

— Vano Merabishvili

#budget #four #implementation #new #next

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did. ↗

— Paul Nitze

#clinical #could #did #ethical #experimentation

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#against #below #blooms #break #broad

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together. ↗

— Daniel Smith

#acoustic guitar #alone #family #figure #guitar

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. ↗

— John Spencer

#allows #cutting #cutting edge #edge #experimentation

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? ↗

— Michael Jackson

#destroys #disorder #help #i #ok

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. ↗

— John Zorn

#been #changing #doing #getting #i