#era

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#any #chaos #existence #generality #indeed

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#because #daily #daily basis #deliberately #fact

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#experiences #find #great #great literature #i

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#beat #book #comic #comic book #doing

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#anybody #change #extremely #friends #generally

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#general #i #i do #most #movements

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Mike Pence

#capitol #capitol hill #declaration #democrats #economic

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt. ↗

— Mike Pence

#bailing #burying #business #debt #every

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. ↗

— Li Peng

#beginning #century #common #cooperation #countries