#sent

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. ↗

— Paul Scott

#becomes #our #past #present #texture

And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#church #course #developing #finished #his

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#avoid #complexities #deal #degree #difficulty

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#brief #certain #feeling #give #nothing

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#consent #gain #greatness #must #often

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#i #life #longer #make #sentence

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deny #disaster #how #insecure #least

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deterrence #nuclear #philosophy #present

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#cases #countries #essential #even #made

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential. ↗

— Nathan Meyer Rothschild

#essential #like #mechanism #part #watch