All Quotes

"Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled — her strength, expended; her reserves, depleted."

"Lightning blinks, striking things in its midst with blinding light. Whirlwinds whirl; driftwinds drift. Spindrift is spinning in thrilling whirligigs. Which blind spirit is whining in this whistling din? [...] Is it this thin, sickish girl, twitching in fits, whilst writing things in spirit-writing? If it isn't — it is I; it is I..."

"Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold bookworms. Profs from Oxford show frosh who do post-docs how to gloss works of Wordsworth. Dons who work for proctors or provosts do not fob off school to work on crosswords, nor do dons go off to dorm rooms to loll on cots. Dons go crosstown to look for bookshops known to stock lots of top-notch goods: cookbooks, workbooks – room on room of how-to books for jocks (how to jog, how to box), books on pro sports: golf or polo. Old colophons on school-books from schoolrooms sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls – both on worn morocco."

"Duluth dump trucks lurch, pull U-turns. Such trucks dump much undug turf: clunk, clunk — thud. [...] Such pumps suck up mush plus muck — dung lumps (plus clumps), turd hunks (plus chunks)."

"Tu es le pain et le couteau. Le cristal et le vin."

"O My people, remember now / What Balak king of Moab counseled, / And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, / From Acacia Grove to Gilgal, / That you may know the righteousness of the Lord."

"In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth."

"A false sense of security is the only kind there is."

"The diaspora is considered the twelfth province of the DRC"

"No effort is wasted when God is in control; success is always at the end of the tunnel."

"The criteria for choosing women should certainly be competence, meritocracy, experience, availability, a spirit of change, integrity,..."

"Everyone, be more beautiful, taller, richer, happier in 2016."

"Like all our wives, she lives for her husband."

"Τίκτει δέ τε θνατοῖσιν Εἰρήνα μεγάλα στρ. πλοῦτον μελιγλώσσων τ' ἀοιδᾶν ἄνθεα, δαιδαλέων τ᾽ ἐπὶ βωμῶν θεοῖσιν αἴθεσθαι βοῶν ξανθᾷ φλογί μῆρα τανῦτρίχων τε μήλων γυμνασίων τε νέοις αὐλῶν τε καὶ κώμων μέλειν."

"Ἐν δὲ σιδαροδέτοις πόρπαξιν αἰθᾶν ἀραχνᾶν ἱστοὶ πέλονται, ἔγχεα τε λογχωτὰ ξίφεα τ᾽ ἀμφάκεα δάμναται εὐρώς."

"Συμποσίων δ᾽ ἐρατῶν βρίθοντ᾽ ἀγυιαί, παιδείοι θ᾽ ὕμνοι φλέγονται."

"Οἱ μὲν ἀδμᾶτες ἀεικελιᾶν νούσων εἰσὶν καὶ ἄνατοι, οὐδὲν ἀνθρώποις ἴκελοι."

"We must therefore take responsibility for redefining the framework within which Congo should develop and with what political model ?"

"An overview of the natural potential of this great country, both historical and economic, social and cultural, which gives it a prominent place in regional political development and stabilization."

"I am a young leader from Tanganyika province. We regret the Constitutional Court's decision and condemn the behavior of Deputy Prime Minister Peter Kazadi. We oppose this decision; the members of parliament have met the demands of the people, but we do not understand why the court is reinstating the governor. We, the youth of Tanganyika, will march against this decision."

"Julie Ngungwa is committed to working to enrich herself; she has forgotten the people first, she is focused on self-interest. This way of doing things is not in line with our ideology. We already consider her anti-Tshisekedi."

"He applied himself especially to history and political science, and was at the end of the fifteenth century what Macchiavelli, though in a different way, was at the beginning."

"and their were discovered in 1977. While the hot-water springs were predicted to occur at s, no one expected to find them colonized by exotic invertebrate faunas. Accustomed to a view of the deep sea as a food-limited environment, the puzzle of how lush communities could be maintained provoked biologists into a flurry of research activity. ... As field programs multiplied and more vent communities were discovered, biogeographic patterns in the distribution of faunas became apparent and ecological issues of requirements, , and began to be addressed. associated with diverse settings, from and s to . Massive bacterial blooms triggered by the release of nutrients during a volcanic eruption, rapid colonization of new vents by invertebrates, and burial of extant vent communities by lava flows demonstrate the dynamic nature of hydrothermal systems. Perhaps the most provocative consequence of the discovery of seafloor hydrothermal vents is the ."

"You can go for hundreds of meters along the and see nothing. But then you’ll get to a and it will be a garden of exotic creatures. The vents are like the . The seawater percolates down through cracks caused by earthquakes, and then it comes up through these underwater chimneys. There are lots of ores there like copper, gold, silver, and s. There’s so much life there, and it’s very different from what we’re used to seeing. Whenever scientists go down, we almost always find new creatures."

"in the late 1970s led to the discovery of at s. More recently, sulphide deposits containing . In addition to metal-rich ores, hydrothermal vents host ecosystems based on . Although there has been considerable effort to study the biology and ecology of vent systems in the decades since these systems were first discovered, there has been limited attention paid to conservation issues. Three priority recommendations for conservation science at hydrothermal vent settings are identified here: (i) determine the natural conservation units for key species with differing life histories; (ii) identify a set of first principles for the design of preservation reference areas and conservation areas; (iii) develop and test methods for effective mitigation and restoration to enhance the recovery of biodiversity in sulphide systems that may be subject to open-cut mining."

"Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock."

"ecosystems have stimulated decades of and hold promise of mineral and genetic resources that also serve societal needs. Some endemic taxa thrive only in vent environments, and vent-associated organisms are adapted to a variety of natural disturbances, from tidal variations to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. In this paper, physicochemical and biological impacts of a range of human activities at vents are considered. , albeit at a local scale, based on our current understanding of ecological responses to disturbance. Natural recovery from a single mining event depends on immigration and larval recruitment and colonization; understanding processes and dynamics influencing life-history stages may be a key to effective minimization and mitigation of mining impacts. Cumulative impacts on of several mining projects in a single region, without proper management, include possible species extinctions and shifts in community structure and function."

"An experience of several years, in the direction of legal studies, has convinced the author, that the progress of the student, in the different branches of the law, is vastly facilitated by a previous examination of those branches collectively, and with reference to their relations to each other."

"For more than forty years I have been a frequenter of court-rooms, and have studied the modes in which the trials of causes are conducted from the various points of view of a spectator, a court officer, a participating counsel, and a judge. The conviction was long since forced upon my mind that the enormous waste of time and energy involved in these proceedings is due to a want of method in preparing and presenting causes, whereby the conflicts of the forum, which should consist in the concentration of well ordered forces on the exact points of attack and defence, degenerate into a guerilla warfare of indefinite duration, characterized by irregular and often fruitless sallies, surprises, and retreats."

"His thorough knowledge of law made him eminent as a teacher and enabled him to render important service to the Church."

"Thou knowest, O Lord, how long I have suffered at hearing the unbeliever — deaf, blind, and headstrong — speak of Thy great work, of the true religion which never dies, as of a question purely of ancient history confined to the learned."

"How lovely are your tents, O Jacob! / Your dwellings, O Israel! / Like valleys that stretch out, / Like gardens by the riverside, / Like aloes planted by the Lord, / Like cedars beside the waters. / He shall pour water from his buckets, / And his seed shall be in many waters. / His king shall be higher than Agag, / And his kingdom shall be exalted. / God brings him out of Egypt; / He has strength like a wild ox; / He shall consume the nations, his enemies; / He shall break their bones / And pierce them with his arrows."

"And he took up his oracle and said: / Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, / From the mountains of the east. / ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, / And come, denounce Israel!’ / How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? / And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced? / For from the top of the rocks I see him. / And from the hills I behold him; / There! A people dwelling alone, / Not reckoning itself among the nations. / Who can count the dust of Jacob, / Or number one-fourth of Israel? / Let me die the death of the righteous, / And let my end be like his!"

"They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet."

"Woe to them! They have followed in the footsteps of Cain; they have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for the sake of gain; and they have perished in the rebellion of Korah."

"And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord, she lay down under Balaam; so Balaam’s anger was aroused, and he struck the donkey with his staff."

"But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality."

"And they warred against the Midianites, just as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed all the males. They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword. [...] And Moses said to them: “Have you kept all the women alive? 16 Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord."

"Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose to make war against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he continued to bless you. So I delivered you out of his hand."

"Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab. They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel."

"They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, / And ate sacrifices made to the dead. / Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, / And the plague broke out among them. / Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, / And the plague was stopped."

"I found Israel / Like grapes in the wilderness; / I saw your fathers / As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. / But they went to Baal Peor, / And separated themselves to that shame; / They became an abomination like the thing they loved."

"Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, / From the mountains of the east. / ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, / And come, denounce Israel!’ / “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? / And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?"

"And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a husband of blood to me!” So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a husband of blood!”—because of the circumcision."

"Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman."

"(To his daughters, whom Moses had defended from the shepherds) So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”"

"And Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.”"

"And Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people—that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. [...] Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mountain of God. [...] And Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how the Lord had delivered them."

"They made me a weapon, then feared the sharpness of my edges."

"I do not write for permission. I do not exist for approval. I am the dream and the dreamer."