#ld

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#already #check #claim #competition #degree

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#arouse #art #bad #does #even

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#fairly #fever #generally #get #hatch

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#child #grappling #grows #instead #lusty

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#cost #countries #creditor #debt #difference

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#composer #film #good #good film #guy

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#form #immortality #only #sure

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#guns #more #need #planes #policemen

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career. ↗

— Robert Urich

#career #cheated #could #done #fill

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#friendly #go #hardly #i #live