#rising

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#becomes #economy #frequent #important #increase

He is now rising from affluence to poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#now #poverty #rising

I like to do things that are surprising and different. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#i #like #surprising #things

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#birth #day #death #each #every

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#because #funny #got #high #high school

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. ↗

— Walter Scott

#any #between #desired #exercising #eyes

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#arafat #began #decade #disposal #fan

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#begin #concentrate #hardly #instead #look

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#capitalists #cease #determined #device #enable

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#apparent #arising #been #co-operative #effort