#though

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#also #certain #confusion #creative #effective

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#i #lot #medium #pen #preferred

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about. ↗

— John Bonham

#care #meant #money #nothing #rich

I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right? ↗

— Chastity Bono

#back #body #going #hair #i

Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#around #country #during #each #here

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#back #came #ceo #jobs #lot

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong. ↗

— Bono

#had #questions #thought #wrong

Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#accepted #any #felt #got #had

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children. ↗

— Pat Boone

#although #anything #children #men #mother