#sence

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#democracy #essence #man #melodrama #might

We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces. ↗

— John R. Allen

#afghan #continued #forces #going #got

It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create. ↗

— Roland Allen

#create #creates #help #holy #holy spirit

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. ↗

— Jean Arp

#after #back #contemplation #day #devices

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ↗

— Avicenna

#essence #every #find #form #infants

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#among #dolls #enormous #expressions #facial

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bugs #never #presence #program #show

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#any #cannot #constrained #discipline #form

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. ↗

— John Adams

#control #effectual #essence #free #free government

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#devotional #god #gracious #hand #his