#mud

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#bath #battle #blood #concerned #election

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#makes #may #muddy #one thing #other

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#explain #itself #muddle #never #never explain

It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed. ↗

— Morning Star

#hearts #mud #only #people #women

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#gentiles #human #jew #jewish #law

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. ↗

— David Suzuki

#children #connecting #dangerous #dirty #facebook

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#about #actor #around #arrested #being

The Talmud offered a virtual home for an uprooted culture, and grew out of the Jewish need to pack civilization into words and wander out into the world. The Talmud became essential for Jewish survival once the Temple - God's pre-Talmud home - was destroyed, and the Temple practices, those bodily rituals of blood and fire and physical atonement, could no longer be performed. When the Jewish people lost their home (the land of Israel) and God lost His (the Temple), then a new way of being was devised and Jews became the people of the book and not the people of the Temple or the land. They became the people of the book because they had no place else to live. That bodily loss is frequently overlooked, but for me it lies at the heart of the Talmud, for all its plenitude. The Internet, which we are continually told binds us together, nevertheless engenders in me a similar sense of diaspora, a feeling of being everywhere and nowhere. Where else but in the middle of Diaspora do you need a home page? ↗

— Jonathan Rosen

#home #internet #talmud #home