Categoria B1 Quotes & Sayings

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake. — Henny Youngman

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts ... to my surprise ... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

God warned me. He told me to build a boat ... — Noah

God is always present in love and in suffering. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame. — Ann Leckie

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind. — Martin Scorsese

There is no decent place to stand in a massacre. Leonard Cohen — Blake Crouch

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person. — Lauren DeStefano

TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIAL SCIENCE embraced not just the Blank Slate and the Noble Savage but the third member of the trinity, the Ghost in the Machine. The declaration that we can change what we don't like about ourselves became a watchword of social science. But that only raises the question "Who or what is the 'we'?" If the "we" doing the remaking are just other hunks of matter in the biological world, then any malleability of behavior we discover would be cold comfort, because we, the molders, would be biologically constrained and therefore might not mold people, or allow ourselves to be molded, in the most socially salutary way. A ghost in the machine is the ultimate liberator of human will - including the will to change society - from mechanical causation. — Steven Pinker