#cap

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. ↗

— Washington Irving

#become #charm #distance #fades #fairy

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#believed #capable #could #great #great things

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#capital #capitalism #come #discrimination #down

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#city #departments #destroy #engineering #landscape

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. ↗

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

#capturing #different #exchanges #fusion #hardness

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#conveying #fact #fiction #in fact #only

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army. ↗

— Robert Jenkins

#american #army #assigned #bring #capable

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#capacity #chinese #chinese government #come #contrary

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#i #kill #killing #man #tyrant

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#danger #debts #escaped #every #great