#pro

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#christianity #concrete #falls #god #life

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#any #degree #language #particular #precision

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#been #bunch #chance #doing #dose

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#built #comfort #companies #full #given

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally. ↗

— Pink

#different #gaining #i #know #least

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people. ↗

— Pink

#being #being honest #ever #feel #had

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.' ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#brother #climb #come #crying #fall

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#always #athletics #been #better #bit

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#child #constituency #does #exist #politician