#sect

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#including #interests #liberty #over #precedence

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#insect #lonely #own #slug

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#looks #nature #private #road #sect

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999. ↗

— Kenneth Robert Livingstone

#any #authority #ethical #exercise #functions

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#caribbean #construction #found #growing #hospital

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#believe #bulls #care #eye #health

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#first-sentence #insects #transformation #dreams

This wobbly world host to insects and lint and a thousand pithy ways to feel unserious each minute It brings about a great softening of the mind, like the clouded edges of sea glass (this filter you could download and apply) A poultice or an opiate, rigidly individual. Alone and erasing sentences to splinters. (Poem No. 5) ↗

— Erin J. Watson

#life #mind #poems #poetry #world

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. ↗

— Xun Zi

#big #big picture #clouded #everyone #fear

It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed, but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed. ↗

— Jasmine Jean

#insect #life #nature #spider #beauty