#ice

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#act #alarm #am #captain #department

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices. ↗

— Greg Walden

#energy #federal #lawmakers #practices #precedent

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#conservative #designated #individuals #inevitably #into

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office. ↗

— Anita Diament

#always #chat #day #end #end of the day

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopt #considerable #either #else #fads

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#coffee #competitors #countries #developing #effort

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#covered #distance #human #human voice #never

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth. ↗

— Bill Gates

#going #i #issues #largely #public

Harmonies are nice. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#nice

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history. ↗