#la

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #capitalist #due #great #industrious

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play. ↗

— Richard Strauss

#difficult #human #human voice #instrument #most

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#animal #anymore #been #cross #dare

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bach #been #born #composing #due

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#began #cafe #called #chatting #column

I'm all over the place. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#over #place

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#black #black comedy #comedy #day #full

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #black #course #i #knew

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anti-semitism #been #desperate #economic #i

As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#blood #brothers #jewish #lackeys #leaders