#nit

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#am #america #houston #i #i am

Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors. ↗

— Ernst Bloch

#christianity #fundementalism #marx #religion #age

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#being #believe #desire #directly #disposes

I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind. ↗

— John Edwards

#bush #george #george bush #i #live

The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. ↗

— John Edwards

#actually #chew #gum #president #same

The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#being #cease-fire #chad #encouraging #held

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#conception #emerges #glorious #however #longer

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. ↗

— Richard L. Evans

#courage #feel #great #keep #opportunity

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#appearances #arrogance #arrogant #beautiful #beauty

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#art #arts #beginning #building #dancing