It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ones.
Alfred North Whitehead
Related I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely t... BAYARD RUSTIN My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instabili... ALDOUS HUXLEY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we ... CHAMFORT Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla... WALLACE STEVENS It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we ... NICOLAS CHAMFORT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree... AMBROSE BIERCE A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON All the great ages have been ages of belief. RALPH WALDO EMERSON I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with ... JACK DEE The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL There is a process within the system that he could have followed to keep it from being sold. Mr. May... GARY HAMPTON Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East. AHMED ZEWAIL It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the le... CLIVE BELL Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society. STEFAN EMUNDS The human brain of all ages is plastic, that is, it is shaped by what you do, what you learn and wha... IAN ROBERTSON It's probably up there. I can't remember which ones are up there with it, but there have been a few ... CONNOR HUGHES The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of functio... ARTHUR KOESTLER Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have ... ISAAC MAYER WISE The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library. CHARLES BUKOWSKI One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority b... SIGMUND FREUD The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not ye... JULES VERNE When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Those rocks are unstable, people shouldn't be out there. Mavericks is a great event, but it's not a ... CLAYTON JOLLEY The whole recorded history of man is strewn with the wreckage of the great civilizations which have ... IRVING S. OLDS Great constitutional provisions must be administered with caution. Some play must be allowed for the... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES We've been inconsistent with it. Now is when we have to get consistent. JAMES POSEY I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ALFRED THE GREAT When the Sun
Clearest shineth
Serenest in the heaven,
Quickly are obscured
All o... ALFRED, THE GREAT Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet pa... ALFRED THE GREAT For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him t... ALFRED THE GREAT Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Conti... GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER Stability has been a concern here, but there is nothing to indicate any instability -- certainly the... JANE ARRAF It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS There was a lot of excitement and it was, it is, a very intriguing, creative concept. But there is a... BEN SCIORTINO Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, i... TRYON EDWARDS Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science,... TYRON EDWARDS Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, i... TRYON EDWARDS Last year it was a fact that there was a gap between the North and South. But there have been years ... DAN MCCARNEY [It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspir... JEFF ABBOTT If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout t... PAWAN MISHRA The degree to which there is division in the Americas, the degree to which there are people who want... THOMAS SHANNON The doctrine of waiting-on-the-Lord is a great time-killer which must be rejected SUNDAY ADELAJA I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at fi... WALTER BAGEHOT The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a... HENRY MILLER Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civi... DANIEL DE LEON You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R... DEYTH BANGER The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of con... GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commiss... JAYA ARJUNA Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... GERMANY KENT Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. JOHN CALHOUN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio... SUSAN SONTAG Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tend... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that mos... ALAN W. WATTS The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be re... WOODROW WILSON The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be re... WOODROW T. WILSON There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to... KIM DAE JUNG Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a det... BEATRICE POTTER WEBB If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a det... BEATRICE WEBB When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count... LAWRENCE WELK I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us ... BLAISE PASCAL I think there is an acknowledgement that it is slow and that it needs to be resolved but there is a ... JAMES GREEN The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them
slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that cla... JAMES H. HAMMOND It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies an... AGNES REPPLIER Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount
Zion, on the sides of the north, the ... BIBLE Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE This could be . . . a very bad idea," I admitted, my grip tightening on his hand. "Oh, it most... SARAH J. MAAS We made three consecutive mistakes on offense that allowed North Allegheny to tie the game. The whol... JEFF BEAVERS This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous o... JOSEPH ROTBLAT There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable... G.K. CHESTERTON
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