#some

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#animal #better #gaming #get #man

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#gifts #gratitude #knack #nothing #people

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later. ↗

— Susan George

#every #every time #face #food #got

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that. ↗

— Susan George

#build #democracy #done #everything #international

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#got #grates #had #i #integrity

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#depths #despair #forward #go #got

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water. ↗

— Susan George

#always #around #because #book #bottle

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job. ↗

— Susan George

#countries #developed #developing #europe #got

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too. ↗

— Susan George

#doing #doing good #example #good #good work

What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right? ↗

— Susan George

#because #corporations #fair #got #i