#era

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

There is not that much of a generation gap these days. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#gap #generation #generation gap #much #these

For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us. ↗

— Jean-Marie Messier

#build #content #could #course #deal

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#black #desperate #experts #forced #geneva

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. ↗

— David Miliband

#austerity #back #britain #country #danger

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#change #entertaining #figure #images #important

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. ↗

— Alice Miller

#benefited #confronted #past #people #therapy

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#creative #encouraging #liberal #our #own

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#brothers #care #cats #circus #deliberately