#sen

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#nonsense

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#carried #concerning #conscience #duty #even

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#death #duration #eternal #eternal life #eternity

Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.
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— Jarod Kintz

#body #death #decrepit #decrepitude #humor

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#both #content #deal #expressions #functions

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt ↗

— Jane Austen

#humour #sensibility #love

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#find #getting #i #imposing #judgements

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#also #anymore #away #because #being

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#any #cartoonists #comes #freelance #hard

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

#every #ideally #news #organization #possible