#less

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. ↗

— Phillip Adams

#fail #go #happen #miserably #success

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#does #fires #irate #keen #majority

Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#celebration #changes #could #country #future

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. ↗

— Scipio Africanus

#i #leisure #less #never #than

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens. ↗

— Steve Albini

#another #band #cannot #even #happens

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#insoluble #neither #nor #others #our

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#baroque #french #german #i #i do

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#arrived #been #exactly #fact #glamorous

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ammunition #bad #billions #get #learn