#prop

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#content #independent #properties #realistic #terms

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#gospel #mission #proclaiming #proper

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#acting school #actor #around #been #bring

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#important #man #more #often #prophecies

Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they have both obstructed the Republicans' proposed remedies. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#budget #days #democratic #failed #his

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#ago #assistance #case #catastrophe #couple

To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#countries #developing #enlargement #gives #growing

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#freedom #main #original #private #private property

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. ↗

— Friedrich List

#arithmetical #concentration #effect #geometrical #growth

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test. ↗

— Eric Liu

#age #born #citizen #each #get