There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government. That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream.
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.
He (Jace) glanced down at his bound hands. His wrists and shoulders had gone from aching to hard, stabbing pain, but he didn’t wince as the inquisitor regarded one of the blades, named it Jophiel, and plunged it into the polished wooden floorboards at her feet. He waited, but nothing happened. “Boom,” he said eventually. “Was something supposed to happen there?” ~pg. 303~
We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.