#nat

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#begin #coercive #compulsory #dissent #dissenters

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#basic idea #called #chew #chewing #day

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#everything #nature #sentimentality #touches

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#governments #international #international law #law #mandated

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal. ↗

— William Jay

#creature #death #desired #dislike #dissolution

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#agreements #american #binding #countries #cultural

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination. ↗

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

#drawn #expand #imagination #visual #visual arts

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#bob #bob marley #hip-hop #impossible #marley

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#human #human nature #least #nature #one thing

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humanity #imagination #loneliness #poetry #solipsism