#ten

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. ↗

— August Strindberg

#complicated #extremely #life #man #mechanism

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#asia #being #coming #competition #enter

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#accounts #after #asset #capital #corporation

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#find #generally #house #living #men

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#confess #dare #dreams #faith #know

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#chance #country #deportation #doing #doing the right thing

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#around #attacks #calm #center #certitude

The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#closing #command #could #desperately #him

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#because #country #democratic #democratic process #envy

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#album cover #anything #around #attention #band