#pit

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#best #capital #commence #hands #head

The press seems to love pitting women against each other. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#each #love #other #pitting #press

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#come #day #deliverance #figures #illusory

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. ↗

— William Allan

#i #latin #learning #money #painter

Law is a bottomless pit. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

#law #pit

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#agreement #am #board #broad #capitals

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace. ↗

— Warren R. Austin

#capitol #craftsmanship #peace #shall #statesmanship

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally. ↗

— Jim Balsillie

#buying #customers #definitely #internationally #noise

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. ↗

— Stephen Vincent Benet

#honesty is #man #rare #self-pity #without