#parable

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. ↗

— Alan Moore

#parables #storytelling #true

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#change #comparable #earth #edge #human

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#capable #comparable #discovery #give #happiness

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

#changed #comparable #demands #diversity #earth

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#function #inseparable #soldier

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#beauty #consciousness #goes #inseparable #intelligence

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. ↗

— Carl Levin

#cannot #damage #escape #even #hospitals

Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change. ↗

— David Miliband

#change #climate #climate change #crime #domestic

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#always #any #been #go #guarantor

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#every #get #god #great #happening