#pens

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#expense #joke #other #postmodernism #revolutionary

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#been #developing #diplomatic #enrichment #european

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all. ↗

— Don Bluth

#closes #enormous #enters #everything #film

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battle #found #i #indispensable #planning

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#bring #brings #determined #happens #how

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on. ↗

— Michael Ende

#day #ever #fact #fear #had

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#called #could #degree #difference #doubt

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#eastern #element #everyone #indispensable #israel

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#civil #civil society #democratization #elements #imperatives

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of. ↗

— Will Estes

#any #book #doors #education #expand