#once

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#completely #condition #distribution #industrial #industrial organization

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#glory #once #worth

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. ↗

— John Bolton

#build #capability #could #estimate #fabricate

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#egyptians #forever #get #go #home

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christ #crucified #ever #few #hours

Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#day #go #hall #just #juvenile

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#apart #before #behind #double #everything

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#concern #england #i #i think #probably

In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.' ↗

— Billy Boyd

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We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#coincidence #concentration #writing #experience