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future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? Charles Caleb Colton
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Alan Watts
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation. Chogyam Trungpa
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
order generosity brave
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
order matter mystery
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.
order doubt sake
It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them. Charles Spurgeon
order waiting world
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.
order bridges insane
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
order names knowing
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.
order telescopes looks
The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.
order luxury long
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. Alan Moore
order lust desire
In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.
promises
He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you. Bob Martin
promises
When he promises something, he'll get it done. If he can't do it, he won't promise it.
promises
We can't make promises that we can give you assistance. John Sparkman
promises stand support sure
I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept. Barbara Mikulski
promises stay
We need to stay to the promise. Promises made need to be promises kept. Bob Beauprez
promises thee turn
Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies. Benjamin Franklin
promises
So much for their promises to be more transparent.
promises proper reveals risks sent suspect torture treatment
These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.
promises
Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.
reform spirit holy
Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform! Aiden Wilson Tozer
reform putin predecessors
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor. Alexei Navalny
reform world womens-suffrage
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. Susan B. Anthony
reforms structural voices
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.
reform world groups
There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.
reform essentials obstacles
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform. Alexander Hamilton
reform care lines
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. Abraham Verghese
reform tasks generations
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. Albert Camus
reform dialect facts
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. David Foster Wallace
social-media
That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual. David Cross
social theory instruments
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them Bruno Latour
social-taboos underwear taboo
I swear, I wanna be your underwear. Bryan Adams
social-behavior saving patterns
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. Dian Fossey
social social-life
I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. Ed Koch
social crisis knows
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis. Bill Nighy
socialist-government obamacare america
The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not. Charlie Daniels
socialism approach
We approach closer and closer to socialism.
social social-change
I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it. Ben Rattray
system word
We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.
systematic mental-illness institutions
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. Ashley Montagu
system weakness
There is a weakness in the system somewhere,
systems
I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there. Paul Otellini
system
We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.
systems weather
Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.
systems-change consciousness individual
As one individual changes, the system changes. Ram Dass
system talking
There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about. Bill Belichick
system
We need a better dredging system that we have now.
taxes cents
I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax. Alan Sugar
taxes
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
taxes raises uncertainty
You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty. Jason Chaffetz
taxes
We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones. Charles Adams
taxes knows
You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax. Chuck Palahniuk
taxes goods household
Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods. Ambrose Bierce
taxes wealthy great-things
If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand. Donald Trump
taxes
As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.
taxes wealthy mess
Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.