#sum

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#assume #completely #danger #dare #demand

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. ↗

— Robert Quine

#bookstore #brooklyn #drank #got #i

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#because #famous #famous people #i #interesting

Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#below #boom #consumers #get #going

Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#consumers #directly #form #i #i think

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#club #college #comedies #country #country club

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#block #cannot #conflict #cyprus #decisions

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. ↗

— Paul Valery

#finds #great #history #may #seeks

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#economy #few #government #keeps #moves