#nit

Ability is of little account without opportunity. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#account #little #opportunity #without

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#history #humanity #ineffectual #novels #passion

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#after #board #bullish #employees #get

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#history #humanity #passion #religion #romance

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#being #beside #cuts #essentially #everything

I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists. ↗

— Victor Kravchenko

#communists #mccarthyism #soviet-union #united-states #communism

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. ↗

— Abdallah II

#altered #breakthroughs #challenges #changes #daily

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#dignity #freedom #heard #hope #i

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#death #died #humanity #indifferent #inflict

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#also #centuries #definite #domain #end