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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
Leo Buscaglia— In interview with Veronica M. Hay, in A Magazine of People and Possibilities (1998)
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
— 1844 Coningsby, bk.2, ch.5.
To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.
keir hardie— Said in 1908.
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
bill gates— "Why I Hate Spam" in Microsoft PressPass (2003)
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
joseph story— Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), p. 708.
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.
harriet van horne— Women Know Everything! by Karen Weekes, published by Quirk Books, 2007
The unwelcomed, unwanted, unwarranted, and force-induced intrusion upon the campus of the University of Alabama today of the might of the central government offers frightful example of the oppression of the rights, privileges and sovereignty of this state by officers of the federal government.
george wallace— Speech in the door of the University of Alabama auditorium
Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore— 1819 E? legies, Marie et romances,'Le Souvenir'.
Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.
— in A Reminiscence of Project Ozma, Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1979.
What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.
henri nouwen— In the Name of Jesus, 1989
The study of human societies and economics is of great importance, and it is not the purpose of the book to suggest otherwise. Rather it is to argue that conventional economics offers a very misleading view of how the world actually operates, and that it needs to be replaced.
paul ormerod— Preface to the Paperback Edition, p. vii
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
— Leo Buscaglia, in interview with Veronica M. Hay, in A Magazine of People and Possibilities (1998)
And I feel that something's coming, and it's not just in the wind. It's more than just tomorrow, it's more than where we've been, It offers me a promise, it's telling me "Begin", I know we're needing something worth believing in.
harry chapin— Remember When the Music
Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.
Anton Chekhov— Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 4, 1889)
The Information Age offers much to mankind , and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information in the sense of raw data is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
arthur c. clarke— As quoted in "Humanity will survive information deluge — Sir Arthur C Clarke" in OneWorld South Asia (5 December 2003)
He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers They form a pattern yet to be matched On the surface simplicity But the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry
björk guðmundsdóttir— "Pagan Poetry", from Vespertine (2001)
"[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection … If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man."
karl marx— "A Young Man's Reflections on the Choice of a Career", in Karl Marx and World Literature (1976) by S. S. Prawer, p.2
The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally.
karl marx— Vol. II, Ch. XXI, p. 500
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay, Intellect.
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy , but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship .
— Don Tapscott, in Don Tapscott: Transforming capitalism won’t happen without leadership, 17 May 2013
A life of love is one of continual growth , where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
— Leo Buscaglia, in interview with Veronica M. Hay, in A Magazine of People and Possibilities (1998)
Everything is bizarre, sub human and superhuman all at once. The dancers do not walk like human beings - they glide… The world we know offers nothing even remotely comparable to this grotesque splendor. Watching these spectacles one is transported to a world of dreams for that is the only place where we might conceivably meet with anything similar.
— C.G.Jung, quoted in p.7 (The Kathakali complex)
It is the dance form that gives you scope to perform diametrically opposite characters at one go, as the theme progresses in the form of episodes. A single dancer can perform the entire Kurukshetra. No other dance form offers this opportunity.
— By Dr. Shobha Naidu in "An Uncompromising Purist"
"Why would anyone want to be President today?" The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. It's not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.
— Richard Nixon, television address on NBC and CBS (September 19, 1968), in Nixon Speaks Out, Major Speeches and Statements … in the Presidential Campaign of 1968 (1968), p. 1.
Apple TV offers a gracious, delightful experience but requires fidelity to Apple’s walled garden.
david pogue— New York Times
The most generous person is the one who offers help to those who do not expect him to help.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.78, p.121
We think…that this world should be destroyed and reborn…You think that…people should start over again…The result may be the same…but they’re different…Show your enemy…no mercy…[Luke offers a hand]With shallow feelings like that…you’ll never…defeat him…Farewell, Meryl
— Who: Largo the Black Lion
— Note: Like all God-Generals, Largo is fought three times. The quote is from the final fight, when Largo truly dies after being struck by one of Natalia's arrows. He is referring to her by her real name; she is his long-lost daughter.
