#ends

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#depends #development #effort #growth #intellectually

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#friends #go #good #good friends #like

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#friends #had #hope #i #influenced

Art depends on luck and talent. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#depends #luck #talent

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#definitely #different #different backgrounds #friendships #had

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy. ↗

— Cat Cora

#cooked #cooking #food #greek #healthy

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— Frances Cornford

#branch #consists #deceiving #friends #lying

Let's think about living some day in a world made of friendship, with hearts beating with duty and feeling, and people and animals and trees and birds and lawns. We'll have a morality never written in a book. A morality that looks in surprise at what we do now and what we'll do in the future, what we think now and what we will think. Then we'll have a longer friendship, Bug-eyes. Then, don't worry. My friend Panço will agree. He won't talk about church morality. He'll tell his children about the extraordinary beauty of friendship. ↗

— Sait Faik Abasıyanık

#morality-without-religion #beauty