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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
Alarmed by the famine of 1770, captain John Garstin built this huge granary Golghar for the British army in 1786. The massive structure is 29 m high and the walls are 3.6 m wide at the base. The winding stairway around this monument offers a brilliant panoramic view of the city and the Ganga flowing by.
— Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation, in "Destinations: Patna"
Leaving reminds us what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
Richard Ford— 1992 'An Urge for Going', in Harper's, Feb.
The man who offers a bribe gives awaya little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has just paid for a woman.
— 1966 The Comedians, pt.1, ch.4.
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
john kenneth galbraith— Article in The Saturday Evening Post, 1968
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
I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
thomas paine— Part 2.7 Chapter V. Ways and means of improving the condition of Europe, interspersed with miscellaneous observations
The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.
william poundstone— Part One, Entropy, Private Wire, p. 69
Fortune knows, We scorn her most, when most she offers blows.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act III, scene 11, line 73.
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)
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.
learned hand— "The Preservation of Personality" (2 June 1927).
The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally.
karl marx— Vol. II, Ch. XXI, p. 500
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.
Margaret Mead— p.274 (1953 edition)
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)
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)
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"
I see, Sir, you are liberal in offers: You taught me first to beg; and now, methinks, You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act IV, scene 1, line 437.
If parody alone can adequately render the reality of our times, only irony offers us the freedom and detachment that are the essential condition of responsible analysis and action.
— Theodore Ziolkowski, in the Foreword of a 1969 edition of The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
Apple TV offers a gracious, delightful experience but requires fidelity to Apple’s walled garden.
david pogue— New York Times
The appeal of biological determinism is that it offers plausible, scientific explanations for societal contradictions engendered by capitalism. If Type-II diabetes is reduced to the problem of genetics (which it surely is to some degree), then we don’t have to think about the rise of obesity and its underlying causes: the agro-business monopoly, income inequality, and class-based disparities in food quality. Combine this with the prevalence of drug-based solutions to disease pushed by the pharmaceutical industry and it is no surprise that we are left with the impression that complex social phenomena are reducible to simple scientific fact.
— Pankaj Mehta, There's a gene for that, Jacobin, February 2014
One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.2, p.116
