#la

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#become #cities #corrupt #europe #get

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood. ↗

— Michael Jeffery

#also #australians #country #defense #died

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#equality #highs-lows #humanity #imperfection #equality

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#mediterranean #morocco #possible #same #see

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#i #i think #isolation #obstacle #political

The problem is that it is difficult to translate. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#problem #translate

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#agreed #bring #difficult #enforcing #form

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#late #life #like #love #measles

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope