#api

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#country #every #industrialized #nearly #now

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #century #conceded #creating #demand

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#awareness #capitalists #collusion #commit #country

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#greatest #lives #nation #our #people

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#capitalists #jumping #like #software #venture

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education. ↗

— Bill Owens

#any #capita #college #colorado #degrees

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included. ↗

— Major Owens

#capital investment #construction #education #facilities #go

Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous. ↗

— Gary Ross

#any #bar #built #cage #capita

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#class #confidence #i #i think #losing

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#emancipation #enabled #ended #hereditary #living