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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#ages #attack #enemy #every #god

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. ↗

— John Ciardi

#nothing #sobriety #wrong

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#four #generals #grow #hats #never

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#aristocratic #been #commerce #ever #mode

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#basically #becoming #come #dreams #faith

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#celebrated #certain #code #could #create

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ever #modern #old-fashioned #only

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#computers #creativity #electronics #involve #lot

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films. ↗

— Jack Valenti

#attract #back #build #capital #china