#tru

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#change #comes #creative #creative works #destiny

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#calling #i #librarian #lost #thinks

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#age #attention #beautiful #begins #ceases

For their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies. ↗

— Rodney Robert Porter

#concerning #discoveries #structure #their

For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american people #continue #current #earth #face

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#being #commits #error #errors #essential

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#choice #ethically #feminist #freedom #glamorous

It simply is not true that war never settles anything. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#never #settles #simply #true #war