#mit

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exaggeration #fear #go #humility #limits

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK. ↗

— Mila Kunis

#am #i #i am #ok #stubborn

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#armies #defensive #endlessly #enemy #field

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#chose #chosen #committee #follow #free

There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. ↗

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

#atheism #atheist #biology #cosmology #guessing

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#beyond #commitment #defence #goes #home

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#call #called #comes #down #going

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#i #i think #like #lot #more

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#anybody #anywhere #bands #classical #david

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#endure #god #him #lack #man