#owl

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look. ↗

— Conrad Bums

#any #arbitrarily #believe #democrat #dismiss

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#cannot #elegant #knowledge #language #literature

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#arranged #classified #facts #general #knowledge

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#education #facts #knowledge #values

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong." ~Albert Einstein "Einstein is referring to ones 'legacy' and its intended future recipients as being willfully purposed to benefit them on their journey through this gift of life given to us by God ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#knowledge-wisdom #legacy #r-alan-woods #study #beauty

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#compliment #him #his #kind #lie

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly. ↗

— Terry Waite

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