#na

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#boxes #bulbs #disks #gliding #heat

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. ↗

— Maimonides

#astronomy #between #certainly #comprehending #desirous

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion. ↗

— Dudley Field Malone

#discussion #good #hours #three #worth

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. ↗

— John Major

#cleansing #ethnic #genocide #i #nations

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#consider #correction #delinquent #divine #duty

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#endeavor #mercenary #pro #very

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. ↗

— John Major

#first #game #hare #intellect #long

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. ↗

— John Major

#edge #european #european union #extremely #i

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed