#pera

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. ↗

— Adam Smith

#augmenting #banking #capital #country #greater

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#income #matter #solvency #temperament

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#language #literal #metaphorical #operates #signification

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#business #even #longer #manner #operate

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#change #escape #gain #lose #mark

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#been #ceos #children #coming #desperately

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#american #foreign #indisputable #judge #lights

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#appeals #beauty #entirely #grand #most

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. ↗

— David Frum

#conservatism #constrained #country #desperate #economic

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#calculator #depth #emotional #equally #how