#resent

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#choices #free-will #future #god #life

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bring #captain #fail #failed #false

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#diplomat #diplomatic #early #father #learn

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#also #ask #attempting #cosmopolitan #dialogue

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#present-moment #time #life

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. ↗

— Robert Bork

#another #another way #basic #being #democracy

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#argument #believe #counts #critically #depends

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation. ↗

— James Bovard

#benefits #better #dictatorial #far #government

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#california #course #graduate #i #i am