"A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one."

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Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1820). “Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.406

Thomas Malthus

#Opposites Quotes #Scales Quotes #Feathers Quotes

“All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed baptism is a kind of enactment of the surrender: you bathe in faith, you swim in it, you live by it, surrounded by it, buoyed up by it, engulfed by it. You drown in it, for at times it takes your breath away as entirely as any lungful of water.... All the answers lie in faith; and when you lose your faith you have no choice but to substitute for if a philosophy that deliberately and coldly offers no answers at all.”
“We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.”
“No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.”

Source : Rory Miller (2014). “Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence”, p.88, YMAA Publication Center, Inc.
“If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.”
“The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.”
“I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.”

Source : "Hangout and About, Part 1: Jason Isbell is Solo, But Not Alone" by Michael Bialas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.
“If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?”

Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co
“I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.”

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