PANDEMONIUM n. Literally the ordsprog

en PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.
  Ambrose Bierce

en It'll be a little more relief when we actually have a store and the doors open up and we're selling things. But I think to have come this far and literally be in the place that we are today is gratifying. It's been a long haul getting here.

en To ''know your place'' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say ''stay in your place'' or ''hang on to your place,'' because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
  William Safire

en It's very rewarding. The hope was that the things we were seeing take place in the U.S. and Europe would come ashore in Japan, and it's gratifying to finally see it take place.

en Having written about a place that was utterly destroyed, it struck me as interesting to look at a place that had come through the war almost literally unscathed, ... I thought, 'And yet and yet and yet ... Does any place [really] come out unscathed?'

en India is a place that's really hard to put your finger on. When people ask me about my trip, my responses can't really convey what I got out of it. It puts a lot of things in perspective in terms of poverty and wealth. It helps you understand your own place in Judaism.

en For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

en Spirit has given us a wonderful window into the very ancient past of Mars. It was a violent place, a place where meteorite impacts, volcanic explosions happened frequently, where hot stuff was raining from the sky.

en We had to. We had no place else to go. You kind of practiced on spots — you literally walked around and found a place that didn't have a ditch in it.

en He revealed that at the very end of the lecture, and I've never heard a lecture hall so silent -- you could have heard a pin drop. It was incredible, and I talked before about bringing a new perspective to history we know, and I think that was one instance where that was particularly true. To hear that weighty fact is something I won't forget anytime soon.

en The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice. The Commodore 64 is the computer that attracts demo programming. The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.
  W. H. Auden

en But there will always be a place for something that's thoughtful and well-informed. I'm confident there's a place for these guys. ... There needs to be a voice saying something other than violence.

en It's premature to say the audience is changing wholesale. Rap is going to change and audience is being developed as it changes. ... But there will always be a place for commercial rap that glorifies money and violence. People like to hear that. There's something refreshing about bravado in music. But there will always be a place for something that's thoughtful and well-informed. I'm confident there's a place for these guys. ... There needs to be a voice saying something other than violence.

en It has been nice to own a building that has room for growth. To me, being located in the strip mall is beneficial, primarily due to its location and access. Sometimes cities place their city hall in an out-of-the-way place and they are not easy to find.

en Coming from a governor's chair, (Bush) comes from the strength of the party, where innovation and reform are taking place. He is the reformer,


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