#jo

So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure. ↗

— John Hutton

#competing #create #economic #economic growth #environment

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#daily #dull #enjoyments #habit #into

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. ↗

— Peta Wilson

#because #cry #grown #grown men #i

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#diminishing #enjoy #every #every man #fellow

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#enemy #freedom #majority #our #society

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#best #greats #guitar #guitar player #i

I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#chrysler #country #good #good idea #guess

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me. ↗

— Janis Ian

#bands #gave #going #guitar #guitar lessons

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career. ↗

— Janis Ian

#europe #god #having #her #i