#las

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#been #belongs #between #clash #common

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#american #american century #century #council #doubt

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#been #better #book #cases #come

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#know #last #law #lot #out

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#always #classes #could #course #dance

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#backlash #bad #now #really #right

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time. ↗

— Harold Acton

#autobiographies #best #biographies #decades #fiction

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. ↗

— Lord Acton

#different #different times #does #fool #last

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it. ↗

— Don Adams

#classic #cult #i #lot #made

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

#democracy #did #exhausts #itself #lasts