#per

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#back #brother #chris #day #father

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#aggression #civilization #consequences #defend #even

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achieving #capable #conceiving #him #his

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#failure #likely #material #might #operation

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan. ↗

— Alex North

#composing #experience #film #kazan

I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#global #hired #i #i think #job

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990. ↗

— Douglass North

#development #during #economic #explore #framework

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains. ↗

— Dudley North

#borrower #cent #considered #government #interest

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did. ↗

— Paul Nitze

#clinical #could #did #ethical #experimentation

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper. ↗

— Larry Niven

#beats #expensive #paper #stack