#rather

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#course #dead #made #may #others

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#adulation #anything #art #get #i

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#better #brick #creation #each #edifice

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. ↗

— Walter Pater

#century #designed #fifteenth #fifteenth century #great

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#alienation #away #basic #collectivism #countries

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#banquet #birth #bread #control #diminish

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. ↗

— Rand Paul

#first #floor #government #handicapped #him

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care. ↗

— Ron Paul

#before #care #early #government #had

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#give me #hand #me #rather #ready

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#i #i can #rather #something #sure