#less

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#days #deeper #inwardly #less #life

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. ↗

— Socrates

#eat #live #only #people #worth

Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#companies #high #high prices #interestingly #know

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#just #lesson #sit #ultimate #write

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#giving #however #lesson #me #means

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ↗

— Tacitus

#due #generosity #leads #moderation #ruin

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. ↗

— David Miliband

#austerity #back #britain #country #danger

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ↗

— O. Henry

#dough #existence #few #inject #into

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#civics #efficient #first #government #home

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#know #minute #politics #room #unless