#ten

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored. ↗

— Pam Gems

#begin #explored #heaven #i #i am

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#economic #enlightened #everyone #exercise #new

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#chemistry #contribution #earth #energy #fear

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#always #intense #longing #more #something

Eaten bread is forgotten. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#eaten #forgotten

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law. ↗

— John Fund

#focus #hold #i #i think #law

Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american society #another #attack #attention #ballistic

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#certain #characters #doubts #excepting #existence