#strikes

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product. ↗

— Brian Harris

#creators #demand #encouraging #failure #higher

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it. ↗

— Colin Hay

#bunch #exactly #how #intentions #me

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. ↗

— Herodotus

#exposed #illness #men #strikes

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. ↗

— Horace

#fall #heavier #high #highest #highest mountain

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. ↗

— David Hume

#design #even #everywhere #intention #most

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#approaches #early #give #normally #powerful

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#air #bare #bosnia #changed #clark

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #century #conceded #creating #demand

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#harder #hurricane #routinely #season #strikes

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#being #better #defeat #disillusionment #elections