Quotes about debris
A collection of quotes on the topic of debris, likeness, day, use.
Quotes about debris
Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895) Indian yogi and guru
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 35 : The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
Context: Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life. Though man's ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful.
Walter Benjamin book Theses on the Philosophy of History
Source: Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940), IX
“Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
"Cosmik Debris"
Apostrophe (') (1974)
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
"By Jove!" in View from a Height (1963); often misquoted as "Jupiter plus debris".
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William Moulton Marston (1893–1947) American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writer
"Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics", The American Scholar, 13.1 (1943): pp 35-44. as quoted in The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times, edited by Joeph J Darowski, p.9; in the essay "William Marston's Feminist Agenda" by Michelle R. Finn,
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 4
Mark Clifton book They'd Rather Be Right
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 187.
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
J. S. Holliday (1924–2006) American historian
About gold mining
The West (1996)
R. Venkataraman (1910–2009) seventh Vice-President of India and the 8th President of India
Source: Commissions and Omissions by Indian Presidents and Their Conflicts with the Prime Ministers Under the Constitution: 1977-2001, P.194.
Hasan Nizami Persian language poet and historian
Hasan Nizami, quoted from Goel, Sita Ram (2001). The story of Islamic imperialism in India. ISBN 9788185990231 Ch. 6
Hasan, Tarikh-i-Kashmir
Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) French writer
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 35
Grant Morrison (1960) writer
2014
http://www.blastr.com/2014-9-12/grant-morrisons-big-talk-getting-deep-writer-annihilator-multiversity
On life
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961, Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Louis Frédéric (1923–1996) French scholar
Louis Frederic, L'Inde de l'Islam, p. 42-49, (quoted from: Decolonizing the Hindu Mind - By Koenraad Elst p. 328)
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
"The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany" (1834)
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) Novelist, short story writer, literary critic
"Locations: An Introduction" (pp. xix-xx)
American Fictions (1999)
Archie Carr (1909–1987) American university professor, zoologist, herpetologist, conservationist
[Impact of nondegradable marine debris on the ecology and survival outlook of sea turtles, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 18, 6, June 1987, 352–356, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X87800255] (quote from p. 352)
Phillip E. Johnson (1940–2019) American Law clerk
Hank Hanegraaf's "Bible Answer Man" radio program (19 December 2001)
2000s
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2003, Remarks after Columbia space shuttle disaster (February 2003)
Qutb al-Din Aibak (1150–1210) Turkic peoples king of Northwest India
Hasan Nizami, quoted from Goel, Sita Ram (2001). The story of Islamic imperialism in India. ISBN 9788185990231 Ch. 6
Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist
Hindu Temples – What Happened to Them, Volume II (1993)
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist
Interview with Charles Krauthammer: America's "Great Success Story", in Middle East Quarterly (December 1994) http://www.danielpipes.org/6305/charles-krauthammer-americas-great-success-story <br class="br">1990s, 1994 <br class="br">Context: Communism always had sympathetic Westerners who amounted to a fifth column, including communist parties and intellectuals. Its appeal made it a double threat, internal and external. In the old days, communist parties were on the verge of getting parliamentary majorities in some European countries. That threat doesn't exist with Islam. The fundamentalists have nothing like that demographic or political import, even in Europe. The Muslim population in America is not much fundamentalist, nor radicalized. Rather, it accepts American religious pluralism and lives, like other religions, in a quite harmonious and pluralistic way.<br>Of all the ideologies remaining in the world in the debris of the collapsed Soviet empire, fundamentalist Islam is the only one that, at least in our lifetime, appears to pose a serious problem to the West. It's the only expressly anti-Western ideology of any importance in the world and it means to destroy the Western position, Western institutions, Western culture, wherever it can. This occurred in Iran, and will happen again in Algeria. Should fundamentalists take power in Egypt, there will be profound geopolitical consequences. A region very important to us will be destabilized, with many problems resulting. Once that happens, we'll be asking ourselves why we weren't worrying about this years ago.
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?," a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream. There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought have been too deeply cut and no change was possible, and nothing new ever happened, and "best" was a matter of dogma, but that is not the situation now. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum. Some channel deepening seems called for.
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 1
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Context: Look, whatever thoughts you have about God, who He is or if He exists, most will agree that if there is a God, He has a special place for the poor. In fact, the poor are where God lives.
Check Judaism. Check Islam. Check pretty much anyone.
I mean, God may well be with us in our mansions on the hill... I hope so. He may well be with us as in all manner of controversial stuff... maybe, maybe not... But the one thing we can all agree, all faiths and ideologies, is that God is with the vulnerable and poor.
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house... God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives... God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war... God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian
"History as Counter-Method and Anti-Abstraction," Clio and the Doctors (1974)
Context: History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. Anything may become part of it; that is why it can be an image of the continuity of mankind. And it is also why some of its freight turns up again in the social sciences: they were constructed out of the contents of history in the same way as houses in medieval Rome were made out of stones taken from the Coliseum. But the special sciences based on sorted facts cannot be mistaken for rivers flowing in time and full of persons and events. They are systems fashioned with concepts, numbers, and abstract relations. For history, the reward of eluding method is to escape abstraction.
Geoffrey Hodson (1886–1983) New Zealand occultist
The Hidden Wisdom In The Holy Bible (1963), Volume III
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
"Worlds In Order" in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 63
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