#stain

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. ↗

— James Madison

#betray #calculate #every #every nation #loss

They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production. ↗

— Mike Marsh

#business #entire #expanding #hurry #indicator

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. ↗

— Jose Marti

#contribute #created #evil #free #human

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#couple #hate #i #longer #sustain

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#believe #far #i #i believe #our

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#decisions #future #going #guarantee #joy

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#authentic #been #belief #come #could

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#chocolate #day-to-day #diet #eating #entire

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#focused #inwardly #itself #only #religion