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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. ↗


— George Carlin


#audience #audience members #become #commonplace #far

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. ↗


— Zbigniew Brzezinski


#avoid #bipartisanship #causes #compromises #cooperate

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗


— James Buchan


#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. ↗


— James Buchan


#business #commercial #display #government #helplessness

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗


— James Buchan


#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. ↗


— James Buchan


#away #commodity #customer #deny #give

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ↗


— Thomas Carlyle


#common #delirium #love #love is #many

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗


— James Buchan


#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ↗


— Arthur Helps


#achieve #certain #confidence #costs #decided

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality. ↗


— Paul Farmer


#believe #class #culture #hiv #humans






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