#there

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#futile #generally #problems #prove #resolve

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits. ↗

— Frank Perdue

#dream #gathered #hits #i #more

I don't have any preferences. I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#based #before #challenged #challenging #criteria

I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#based #before #challenged #challenging #criteria

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#agency #applied #apply #catholic #community

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#also #authority #become #body #controls

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#difficulty #enemy #european #i #imagine

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#allows #building #civil #civil society #does

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#also #cannot #cell #cell research #consistent

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss. ↗

— Edward Dyer

#excels #find #i #joys #kingdom