#rally

Generally when there's a lot of smoke... there's just a whole lot more smoke. ↗

— George Foreman

#just #lot #more #smoke #whole

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#according #business #dozen #extensive #gardens

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. ↗

— Robert Trout

#allocation #any #argued #avoiding #best

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#american #american public #been #believe #best

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#generally #land #raised #taxes #thing

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#banish #domestic #general #independence #kind

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#before #beg #century #closed #contemplate

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#because #began #black #black community #black family

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#carpet #come #comfortable #explaining #feel