#ore

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#commerce #depends #diffusion #education #foreign

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#american society #anymore #because #fashionable #going

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

#days #good #good old days #memory #more

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#extinct #forest #learn #man #oceans

I drink therefore I am. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#drink #i #i am #therefore

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies. ↗

— Billie Piper

#am #babies #even #friends #i

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#areas #defence #drive #great #hardware

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#before #coming #conscience #far #had

This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#malfoy #death

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#country #experiencing #get #going #i