"Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life."

-- Jill Ker Conway

#Spiritual Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #School Quotes

“A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.”

Source : Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.127, Рипол Классик
“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.”
“The more physics you have the less engineering you need.”
“Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.”
“A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve”
“To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.”
“Let no day slip over without some comfort received of the Word of God.”

Source : "Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland".
“Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.”

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