#api

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#earn #everyone #few #goods #guiding

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#entertainment #escapist #even #good #i

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#bits #classic #gaping #holes #i

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#burden #countries #development #disease #double

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#capitalize #comes #expect #prepare #worst

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#also #believe #believed #big #big government

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. ↗

— Lord Byron

#feathers #highly #men #nothing #quicker

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero. ↗

— Herman Cain

#biggest #capital #capital gains #driving #economic

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#days #democracy #effectively #enough #face

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism. ↗

— James Cameron

#escapism #fantasy #fascinated #fiction #had