#stance

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus. ↗

— Charles Atlas

#best #body #own #resistance #safest

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#activity #circumstances #general #his #ideas

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. ↗

— David Bowie

#awe #behind #believe #bereft #buddhist

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#circumstances #constitute #decree #fate #fortuitous

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. ↗

— David Davis

#classes #constitution #covers #equally #law

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#duties #front #his #inverse #line

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#circumstances #harm #little #master #shall

Christ's humanity is presentation, His words & works are the substance encapsulating his Divinity". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#presentation #r-alan-woods #substance #truth #truths

I managed to beat Michael Phelps’ 400 meter IM time. And not only did I beat his time, but I did it in exactly 200 meters.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #compete #competition #competitive #delusional

Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights