#pi

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#church #discipleship #inspirational #religion #theology

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#before #classes #did #doctors #guinea

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government. ↗

— Brad Henry

#government #ideology #important #matter #our

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#american #american spirit #different #language #liberty

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling. ↗

— Thierry Henry

#feeling #i #just #know #mine

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped. ↗

— Thierry Henry

#i #retiring #stop #stopped #stopping

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#being #capitulate #commercial #commercially #i

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing. ↗

— Jim Henson

#commercials #couple #did #doing #i

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anything #bank #behaviour #both #children

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian. ↗

— Keith Henson

#areas #called #deluded #enough #evolutionary