#pro

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#essence #improbability #life #scale #statistical

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #culture #fbi #focused #massive

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#challenges #children #destructive #internet #keep

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#covered #days #everything #fine #first

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#catastrophes #fiction #fiction writers #foresee #inevitable

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#how #occupation #people #problem

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. ↗

— Julian Assange

#any #caliber #disclosures #enormous #enough

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#careful #even #fully #heart #lips

When two or three people come together in the name of Neverland then I will be there amidst them or if I am too busy or have a better offer, then I will send a proxy or you can just have the tantrum without me, whatever.” (King James Version: Gospel of St. Peter (of Pan)Verse: Blah Paragraph: Blah, blah ↗

— Daniel Prokop

#humor #leaving-neverland #peter-pan #business

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. ↗

— Mary Astell

#honour #ill #love #neither #nor