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You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#architecture #capital #car #developed #extended

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#confuse #expectations #find #i #make

I thought it would be a lot of fun and I wasn't going to do the movie without Johnny. The studio suggested a couple people, and I'd never met Johnny, but I thought we'd be a perfect team for this movie because we're both a little bit unpredictable. ↗

— Sean William Scott

#bit #both #couple #fun #going

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#british #city #council #estate #every

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple. ↗

— Graham Nash

#care #i #making #mean #only

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#demise #effective #overstated #predictions #prior

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#did #direction #find #first #foremost

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#clarifies #first #highest #historian #ignorance

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#direct result #employee #her #his #interactions

There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#color #connection #einstein #interested #light