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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#drives #far #get #human #human knowledge

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#criticism #find #ignores #investigate #man

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#gates #inside #into #mob #open

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#been #building #dismantled #his #home

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#conviction #convinced #degenerates #fools #however

I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#any #back #couple #doing #door

It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#because #black #come #get #groups

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#covered #giving #i #like #management

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#business #cause #doing #fine #had

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#depressed #disasters #everybody #find #gone