#ria

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#endowed #energetic #human #human resources #lacks

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#day #died #every #every day #know

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about. ↗

— Julius Erving

#adrian #business #first #got #gray

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#finances #financial-planning #fool #foolish #hoarding

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#attorney #attorney general #challenged #criminal #general

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#me #mystery #ultimate

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#another #cancel #drives #every #expert

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#always #any #best #case #make

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#hand #hope #into #like #marriage

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. ↗

— Jules Verne

#base #called #eighty #embraces #everybody