#pal

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. ↗

— David Hume

#principals #result #stereotyped #system

The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. ↗

— Gareth J. Nelson

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#great #ideas #important #judgement #line

God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built. ↗

— King Hussein I

#built #come #god #lebanese #looks

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. ↗

— Dean Inge

#candle #ever #fear #i #lighted

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill. ↗

— Laura Ingraham

#american people #bill #care #dismiss #dissatisfaction

Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama. ↗

— Laura Ingraham

#barack obama #i #i think #look #now

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car. ↗

— John Surtees

#because #being #car #come #competitive

I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The reverence for their loss, for their children's loss. It was eloquent and grand. So moving and charged with solidarity...On September eleventh, I faced the last moments of your father's life. I saw him in every person who tried to jump and every body they pulled from the rubble. And I saw myself as I was never allowed to be, consoled, understood, and loved. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#americans #palestinians #september- #love

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play. ↗

— Doc Watson

#called #i #meaning #merle #mood