#las

Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years. ↗

— Donald Evans

#fastest #got #growing #growth #last

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#deep #democratic #democratic party #fade #intellectual

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. ↗

— Billy Joel

#available #classical #conservatory #education #i

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#applications #basically #both #business #completely

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#arrive #convey #inspiration #last #may

In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#am #around #athlete #because #breathe

At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#appeared #attention #capitalist #classes #competition

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#could #found #gold #had #land

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#becoming #causes #classes #complex #international

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#change #could #indeed #industrial #instrument