#pre

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian. ↗

— Karl Rove

#born #christian #episcopalian #i #presbyterian

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#become #block #discrimination #easier #half

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Karl Rove

#court #empathy #justice #liberal #mr

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#brain #cognitive #constructs #directly #does

The beauty of God is to be seen in the seventh plane as shown by God-the-Preceptor and then one becomes self-alone in the shape of his own identity and it is to be seen and heard from others. The thing must be taking place during the life-time of the seer of God and then all else will appear ephemeral. ↗

— sri jibankrishna or Diamond

#preceptor #beauty

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#grouch #hangs #his #jest #justification

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#good reputation #good time #man #prefer #reputation

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#humans #knack #precisely #them #things

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#even #foolproof #his #impress #knew