#stance

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#god #individual #individuation #matter #principal

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#back #casualties #challenge #civilian #civilian casualties

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#first #first of all #instances #many #order

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#circumstances #much #music #playing #really

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. ↗

— Sean Astin

#distance #feels #nothing #perfect #run

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#get #happenstance #helped #how #life

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#bullets #country #down #everyone #fact

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#assistance #branches #chemistry #chosen #departments

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#associated #being #comes #excellence #far

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ↗

— Monica Baldwin

#size #spider #substance #web #wisp