#vent

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#chief #difficulty #divine #materialism #men

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#behind #cannot #cast #coming #events

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. ↗

— Arthur Bloch

#enough #eventually #improve #long #malfunction

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome. ↗

— William Bligh

#any #bay #convenient #during #exceedingly

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series. ↗

— Jim Evans

#enthusiasm #every #game #high #high standards

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds. ↗

— William Bligh

#bay #endeavouring #get #into #prevented

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#finite #infinite #venture

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. ↗

— Tony Blair

#choices #confront #dangers #events #facing

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000. ↗

— Tony Blair

#day #event #expect #going #killed

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#fail #guilt #just #must #prevent