#gains

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time. ↗

— Robin Day

#commerce #every #every time #going #lose

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#against #any #armed #countries #critical

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. ↗

— Ernest Bevin

#been #before #calmly #common #common man

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax. ↗

— Joe Biden

#barack #capital #capital gains #gains #income

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#had #i #just #lawsuit #place

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#god #obedience #rebellion #tyrants

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true. ↗

— Robin Day

#against #asked #celebrities #course #entertaining

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#against #any #army #little #navy

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#capacity #genius #productive #reaction #training