#under

I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on. ↗

— Asa Gray

#difficulties #felt #foundation #had #hold

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#american society #choice #fabric #iraq #society

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#bewail #ceaseless #effort #human #human actions

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#hate #human #human actions #i #laugh

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#endeavor #first #only #understand #virtue

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#consent #entire #free #guidance #lives

True virtue is life under the direction of reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#life #reason #true #under #virtue

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#care #courts #disputes #does #encouraging

Anyone will say anything under torture. ↗

— George Galloway

#anything #say #torture #under #will

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being #being happy #benefits #duty #happy