#mar

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#developing #developing world #generation #marshall #marshall plan

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive. ↗

— Charles Stuart Calverley

#i #inexpensive #know #married #marvellous

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#cows #dad #eighth #eighth grade #four

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits. ↗

— John Bruton

#european #foreign #global #half #market

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. ↗

— Yul Brynner

#being #being smart #dumb #get #men

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#find #know #ourselves #position #remarkable

What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we're awfully slow to get... They know that being rich doesn't have any damn thing to do with how much money you've got. It's got to do with are you happy and are you content. ↗

— Rachel Dickinson

#contentment #happiness #happy #lesson #money

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#being #decisions #extreme #heard #impose

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air. ↗

— John Bunyan

#easy #high #hit #learned #mark