#stance

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

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Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#been #besides #boarding #boarding school #both

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#behooves #case #change #circumstances #conscience

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #certain #government #i #i wish

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#disagree #education #fundamental #i #i can

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

#any #conditions #history #instance #less

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#circumstances #instead #letting #meant #often

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#distance #doubt #everything #follows #god

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#backed #divine #even #expect #faith

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#momentary #process #scientific #static #then