#occupy

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#i #i wish #miser #must #occupying

When the world is mine, then you all will be the 99.9%. ↗

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

#occupy-wall-street #love

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#corporations #government #occupy-wall-street #ows #potus

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#central #even #language #made #meaning

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#candidate #catering #first #first of all #going

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#experience #live #lives #majority #may

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#coincide #construction #dramatic #effect #examining

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. ↗

— Robert Browning

#death #dream #face #lose #meet

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#me #most #music #occupy #thing

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric