#seem

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#around #definition #fairness #force #like

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#best #canadians #despite #difficult #either

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. ↗

— Mary Astell

#defend #generous #honourable #may #me

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#been #life #quintessence #seems #truth

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! ↗

— Johnny Ball

#difficult #elegance #emphasise #how #mathematics

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. ↗

— William Bartram

#be the first #birds #even #first #food

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

#affections #ardent #attachment #faithful #filial

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#ever #his #law #man #nature

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. ↗

— Paul Berg

#chemical #designing #events #far #far less