#aims

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better. ↗

— Rufus Jones

#better #case #claims #economic #economic forces

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#attainment #consciously #himself #historic #humanity

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#dead #debt #die #due #dust

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#claims #hard #numbers #slippery #those

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#aims #design #either #java #match

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#biggest #claims #day #either #entire

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#desires #does #fortune #full #himself

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#bar #believes #claims #club #comes

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#any #happened #i #know #mom