#it

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#beach #because #course #favorite #miami

Professional competitions are overrated. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#overrated #professional

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. ↗

— Ian Gilmour

#order #politicians #power #quest #sails

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#assume #come #designated #growth #hand

But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection. [Henry V, Act IV Scene I] ↗

— William Shakespeare

#responsibility #death

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#computer #generator #guitar #moving #ok

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions. ↗

— David Baker

#combined #cure #customer #education #effort

In America nothing dies easier than tradition. ↗

— Russell Baker

#dies #easier #nothing #than #tradition

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#ago #been #being #civilization #difficulties

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. ↗

— John Baldacci

#arts #creative #design #economy #engineering