#net

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#born #had #human #human right #i

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#begins #first #get #happened #i

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#bennett #patron #patron saint #saint #them

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#big #big issue #collect #difficult #government

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#around #becomes #being #between #calls

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#consumes #course #energy #generate #golf

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#being #break #country #explain #flattened

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#believe #brutalized #capitalism #capitalist #deal

Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#always #arrogance #big #big enough #conversely