#ture

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#man #most #nature #reed #thing

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#body #calls #cast #dimension #else

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families. ↗

— George Pataki

#brighter #dream #economic #economic future #families

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act. ↗

— George Pataki

#budget #case #i #i can #know

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. ↗

— Walter Pater

#conjecture #each #ever #experience #group

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads. ↗

— Walter Pater

#age #culture #different #forms #intellectual

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#ideologies #ideology #institution #nor #processes

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#because #being #clothes #doctor #done

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#conjure #ever #go #going #head

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#barack obama #future #obama #our #own