#plain

People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness. ↗

— David Brooks

#buy #campaign #cleanliness #complain #get

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. ↗

— David Brooks

#form #known #logical #lunacy #procedure

Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#away #bandwidth #complain #distribution #download

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#faults #had #less #others #our

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. ↗

— James Chanos

#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#afford #air #another #driven #falling

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#because #flood #going #home #homes

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#farmers #hope #national #opportunity #out

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people? ↗

— John Clayton

#am #campus #college #death #every

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#armour #bit #bitter #change #clip