#case

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#advantages #although #been #case #contrary

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#cases #deserved #most #reputation #well

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. ↗

— Teri Garr

#because #cases #financial #financial aid #give

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#case #longer #modern #revolution #uncouth

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#case #escape #hard #insists #poverty

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#allies #ask #before #case #china

In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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