#poses

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. ↗

— Maimonides

#belong #depreciation #desires #far #law

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#danger #exposes #himself #more #person

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#conversations #decision #done #historical #i

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#appropriations #avoid #awkward #cash #clients

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. ↗

— David Rittenhouse

#beauty #bigness #considerable #contrived #fitter

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#ends #free #life #means #prescribe

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#art #chess #game #i #imposes

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#broadcasters #campaign #campaign finance #campaign finance reform #finance

Kematian selalu membuntuti Kehidupan dengan begitu dekat, bukanlah karena keharusan biologis, melainkan karena rasa iri. Kehidupan ini begitu indah, sehingga maut pun jatuh cinta padanya. Cinta yang pencemburu dan posesif, yang menyambar apapun yang bisa diambilnya ↗

— Yann Martel

#cinta #hidup #indah #iri #kehidupan

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#different #earlier #eu #kosovo #presences