#w

I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#better #going #i #junkie #ok

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#lost #must #power #speak #tongue

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. ↗

— Albert Pike

#before #brain #capacities #hands #honorable

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ↗

— Albert Pike

#ennobles #great #great principle #nation #principle

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature. ↗

— Albert Pike

#equivalent #man #miniature #world

Will is the dynamic soul-force. ↗

— Albert Pike

#will

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. ↗

— Albert Pike

#catastrophes #result #series #victory #which

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#able #behavior #change #human #human society

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#been #both #christianity #commitment #conflict