#sen

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world. ↗

— Christo

#cold war #economic #end #europe #germany

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#had #i #league #mistake #nations

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#being #care #i #less #oscars

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#exactly #know #other #our #people

So don't applaud. Just send me the check. ↗

— Broderick Crawford

#check #just #me #send

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#loses #sense #urgency #value #without

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#men #nonsense #now #now and then #then

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#easy #far #freedom #going #how