#wit

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#away #fear #hope #more #reason

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#could #decision-makers #fbi #get #had

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#cold #cold war #cultural #economic #emerging

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#anyone #get #got #hard #hard work

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news. ↗

— David Chalmers

#big #big news #broader #consciousness #detailed

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#am #challenge #comes #completely #consequences

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#century #changed #civilization #communist #completely

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#god #man #vision #without

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#dimensions #distance #itself #largely #maintained