#there

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail. ↗

— Major Taylor

#had #i #my own #own #pioneer

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#college #got #i #life #me

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

#besides #clearly #entity #exists #intelligible

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#about #alexander #almost #back #basis

It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#advancement #become #cause #effort #essential

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#need

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#confess #eternal #forever #fuehrer #germany

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#capacity #empathize #enables #envision #experiences

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#caution #great #must #terrible #terrible thing

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. ↗

— Gabrielle Roy

#free #his #judgement #keep #main