Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere.
It would seem the people who want to preserve the Penans' way of life are condemning them to a life full of diseases and a shorter life span.
I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
The only thing that will keep an abortion worker in the industry longer is a pro-lifer who condemns them.
Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.
I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.
We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club. No one thinks outside the box.
Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.
But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
