#mm

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#better #commodity #cultural #exchange #important

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#could #duran #guys #i #like

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#empire #ethically #faith #give #immortality

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#before #command #conflict #demonstrated #disturbing

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced. ↗

— Jaime Herrera Buetler

#enjoyed #i #must #npr #programming

I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire. ↗

— David Ginola

#am #another #carte #film #hoping

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#greatest #greatest weapon #modern #press #printing

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers. ↗

— John Lawson

#content #destroy #far #far less #i

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#buyers #commodities #energy #food #just

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer. ↗

— Robin Leach

#answering #because #better #give #give me