#stance

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#biceps #enormous #found #grows #had

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#alleviating #chance #christianity #difficult #instance

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare. ↗

— Dudley North

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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#above #beasts #been #certain #city

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#decision #director #else #film #final

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#born #cannot #circumstances #differences #emotional

I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before. ↗

— Chan Ho Park

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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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