#fr

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #asia #contrasting #countries #developing

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. ↗

— Charles Bradlaugh

#better #denial #free #free speech #speech

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#family #friends #happy #sounds #success

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ↗

— Plutarch

#balance #friends #just #only #prosperity

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#brave #coward #either #him #man

But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#am #any #association #beneficial #could

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access. ↗

— Franka Potente

#candy #every #first #free #free access

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#directing #french #had #hard #hard time

There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble. ↗

— Michael Buble

#frank #frank sinatra #i #michael #never