#son

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way. ↗

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else. ↗

— George Best

#difficult #else #even #found #get

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#himself #person #pleasure #temptation #weak

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#american #american politics #condition #country #failed

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#consideration #dead #either #eulogy #person

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#combat #comparison #contractors #else #individuals

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#faith #reason #religion #faith

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. ↗

— Xun Zi

#get #nowhere #once #person #roads

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#being #call #exercise #fact #farce

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical" ~R. Alan Woods [2007] ↗