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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
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Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.
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Don't judge your running by your speed.
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A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.
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I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.
