#them

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#am #arrogance #been #broad #employ

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#accommodate #edges #give #group #most

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#before #british #defeat #fire #future

I have young kids. The fiscal burden that will be imposed on them is going to depend primarily on whether we tackle this looming problem in our health care system - with rising costs that don't seem, by the way, to be necessarily associated with higher quality. That is the key burden that they will face. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#burden #care #costs #depend #face

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#actual #back #ball #born #changed

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy. ↗

— Al Pacino

#comedy #comic #did #how #i

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day. ↗

— Bess Truman

#alarmed #am #any #day #every

One finds limits by pushing them. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#limits #pushing #them

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring. ↗

— Farkas Bolyai

#mathematics #politics #science #thought #science

Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of 'what is.' Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of 'how to' . ↗

— Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman

#mathematics #sicp #science