#scheme

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#build #could #every #industry #keeping

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#any #beings #drawn #fraction #human

But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #emissions #global #hoped #i

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#crowning #evolution #far #glory #human

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#evolution #human #inheritance #our #place

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#phonetics #scheme #stiff #thing #uncertain

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devise #irish #nation #now #old

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme. ↗

— Bernard Katz

#organized #organized religion #pyramid #religion #scheme

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing? ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#even #fit #his #how #i

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ↗

— Confucius

#bad #difficult #easy #get #good