#references

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#convictions #firm #give #hold #preferences

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#atoms #belief #contingent #forces #heart

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#concept #even #feeling #i #i can

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#american #american people #choice #express #i

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#books #dogs #drink #even #germany

But it's not just a game of finding literary references. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#game #just #literary #references

Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream, nobody is too old for cartoons, bald men are sexy, chocolate is the best medicine, BIG books are better, cats secretly rule the planet, and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#books #cartoons #cats #chocolate #frozen-yogurt

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#grammar #grammar-humor #humor #humour #science-fiction

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff. ↗

— James Lankford

#different #different things #inherently #kind #obvious

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#clear #communications #critical #distraction #exaggeration