#orc

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#alliance #avert #chamberlain #desires #england

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre. ↗

— Vince Cable

#big #bizarre #britain #co-operative #easy

I wanted a divorce, so I bought myself a house, to give me the incentive to stay married. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #marriage #funny

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#examples #forcible #i #look #mean

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consumption #control #distracted #force #own

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#get #ground #hill #i #off

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. ↗

— Charles Curtis

#fraud #homage #pays #reason

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce. ↗

— Dan Dailey

#divorce #get #hollywood #little #next

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. ↗