#pure

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#below #built #card #cards #deck

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#cards #immediately #out #politics #power

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#consisting #course #debate #debts #decades

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#better #branches #difficult #had #mathematicians

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#ended #extravagant #out #plain #pure

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#every #influence #over #pure #reason

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. ↗

— John Engler

#body #legislative #purest #redistricting #take

However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#accessible #am #feel #forward #however

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#bad #being #darker #doctrine #existence

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#amazing thing #away #believe #expression #fight