#reed

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#chains #comfort #death #die #even

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anonymity #beyond #brought #deception #each

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#beyond #certain #certain age #decreed #jacket

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. ↗

— George A. Smith

#entrance #every #evil #freedom #god

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. ↗

— Huston Smith

#breeds #community #differences #drawn #first

I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#guys #horton #i #jimmy #lay

Societies depend on agreed rules. ↗

— John M. Smith

#depend #rules #societies

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#anyone #believe #department #expected #freedom

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#lincoln #man #nobody #single #slave

There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#been #breed #created #just #levels