#mos

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#basis #believing #beyond #convinced #doubt

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#course #earth #go #i #like

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#fear #free #most #power #really

Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#been #bugging #bugs #counter-intelligence #devices

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#both #content #deal #expressions #functions

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change. ↗

— Sam Wood

#into #material #need #recognized #respect

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. ↗

— Leonard Woolf

#drill #grinding #intellect #most #painful

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try. ↗

— Joanne Woodward

#addressed #almost #area #being #effort

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#almost #blunt #causes #combined #discriminating

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. ↗

— Joe Wright

#because #called #endings #fairytale #find