#square

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#assumptions #cannot #contrary #existence #fact

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#baltimore #black #brought #came #felt

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#fight #get #getting #into #like

In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. ↗

— Evo Morales

#centuries #changes #colonialism #committed #ending

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#count #earn #fair #honesty #integrity

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#decisions #found #i #life #making

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#bought #feet #got #house #indoor

We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#between #early #groups #hundred #measuring

My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square. ↗

— Horace Gregory

#floating #greek #harvard #islands #over

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#anxiety #become #death #face #free