#tin

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself. ↗

— John Hutton

#after #consulting #deals #decisions #eu

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#certainty #cristina-marrero #faith #knowledge #spirituality

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#behind #both #centuries #children #deficient

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it. ↗

— Janis Ian

#black #black and white #bus #child #couple

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought. ↗

— Janis Ian

#assassinated #died #difficult #everyone #fine

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#both #built #collapse #come #home

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#considering #customers #desktop #existing #learning

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#does #interesting #microsoft #really #some

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. ↗

— David Icke

#another #closed #demand #down #freedom