#position

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money. ↗

— Michael Enzi

#away #chamber #else #everybody #favorite

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ↗

— Annie Besant

#believe #denial #experience #given #limited

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ↗

— Florence King

#disjointed #ephemeral #memories #nostalgia #true

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#easier #hits #home #position #take

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. ↗

— Anne Seward

#attention #bestowed #cannot #compositions #countrymen

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. ↗

— Dimitri Shostakovich

#because #composition #creative #creative artist #his

Religious leaders who continue mechanically to expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes and lawyers of Jesus’ day who faithfully parroted the Law without the remotest notion of what was going on around them spiritually,” wrote Tozer. “They fed the same diet to all and seemed wholly unaware that there was such a thing as meat in due season. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#exposition #diet

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#affording #any #errors #except #general

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ↗

— William H. Seward

#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter