#ra

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#bush #came #cheney #corporate #corporate interests

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dedication #determination #drive #endurance #life

I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games. ↗

— Taufik Hidayat

#badminton #dropped #federation #format #games

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#baton #business #first #greatest #ian

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#difficult #going #had #high #high price

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. ↗

— Jack Higgins

#ira #irish #like #look #makes

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#common #determination #different #future #i

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ↗

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

#great men #isolated #men #ranges #rarely

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#big #branches #bud #changing #drop

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#approach #been #challenge #classic #concentrated