#ox

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#been #enabled #governed #had #laws

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3) ↗

— David Bentley Hart

#christianity #eastern-orthodox #beauty

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#courage #even #his #keep #life

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#benjamin #cohen #com #come #could

Power is paradoxical. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#paradoxical

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware. ↗

— Julius Evola

#paradoxical #truth #religion

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#box #box office #could #i #mean

There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#another #bag #believe #boxing #coming

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere. ↗

— John Fiske

#crumbling #everywhere #into #orthodox #ruins

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#forty #i #little #oxford #past