#render

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#chill #environment #feet #ground #heart

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#bodies #fact #highest #highest wisdom #itself

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. ↗

— John Dewey

#beliefs #compelled #compromises #even #hangs

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. ↗

— Tony Blair

#i #our choice #power #say #surrender

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#divorce #divorces #duties #each #help

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ↗

— Joan Didion

#claims #forever #hardest #his #image

It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#because #country #hostile #made #old

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. ↗

— William Bligh

#any #attempt #cape #considerable #considerably

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#alternative #argument #convincing #extremists #fighting

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#constant #continuous #create #creates #environment