#sca

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

#anywhere #beneficiaries #big #constituencies #farmers

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#discarded #like #power #something #underwear

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cloak #drop #even #explanation #facts

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#come #feature #feet #grown #hands

I do not see scales as abstract. ↗

— James Galway

#i #i do #scales #see

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes. ↗

— James Galway

#i #indeed #lot #out #playing

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios. ↗

— James Galway

#know #scales #you #your

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#could #done #experiments #hills #i

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#even #every #every man #his #life

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#both #community #georgian #individual #respected