#sm

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#called #deep #initiation #into #may

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#evolution #id #intelligent-design #macroevolution #naturalism

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#charge #day #end #every #fashion

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#expunge #going #here #i #must

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#class #cuts #i #means #middle

The great majority of interpretations of Apocalypse assume that the End is pretty near. Consequently the historical allegory is always having to be revised; time discredits it. And this is important. Apocalypse can be disconfirmed without being discredited. This is part of its extraordinary resilience. It can also absorb changing interests, rival apocalypses, such as the Sibylline writings. It is patient of change and of historiographical sophistications. It allows itself to be diffused, blended with other varieties of fiction--tragedy, for example, myths of Empire and of Decadence--and yet it can survive in very naïve forms. Probably the most sophisticated of us is capable at times of naïve reactions to the End. ↗

— Frank Kermode

#change

Use the KEY to change: Knowledge Empowers You! ↗

— Andrew Kreig

#inspirational #political-reformer #change

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#feelings #humanity

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#government #height #incomplete #millions #millions of dollars

Our material aspect is neither blessing nor curse. It is a means to an end. Find out what that end is." - A Time of Change ↗

— Paul Greene

#evolution #intelligent-design #spiritual #change