#verse

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#al gore #attention #course #destruction #earth

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it. ↗

— Thales

#more #must #necessity #nothing #over

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#many #prose #today #verses

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#consciousness #endowed #everything #i #kind

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#divine #heart #human #human heart #image

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul. ↗

— Little Richard

#greed #nobody #soul #taken #their

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

#difficult #ever #faith #god #in the beginning

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#emotions #facts #inversely #knowledge #varies

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#behalf #blow #bound #each #helps