#con

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ↗

— John Clapham

#economic #human #human progress #progress #same

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible. ↗

— Julie Christie

#horrible #i #life #mind #never

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat. ↗

— Julie Christie

#back #britain #came #consciousness #had

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#actually #been #continue #department #gave

The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. ↗

— John Corry

#conventional #delicate #flying #glass #gothic

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#constantly #gift #greatest #greatest gift #growing

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not. ↗

— Cher

#because #chipping #control #difficult #difficult task

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#always #cannot #control #evil #forces

Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers ... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money. ↗

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

#politics #money

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#alternative #bad #consider #old #old age