#gis

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#man #music #musicologist #read #who

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#legislative #party #talk #tend #terms

The world is not going to be saved by legislation. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#legislation #saved #world

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. ↗

— George Richards Minot

#awakening #been #blended #considered #courts

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#big #bipartisan #country #goal #legislation

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#associates #favorable #feature #forthcoming #her

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. ↗

— Jack Weatherford

#control #ghengis-khan #historical-person #leadership #mongols

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House. ↗

— George McGovern

#american #better #businesspeople #concerns #firsthand

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. ↗

— Frédéric Bastiat

#law #legislation #liberty #man #politics