#term

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#determines #economic #economic power #governments #political

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#comparing #concrete #connections #could #different

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. ↗

— David Simon

#americas #being #beings #cultural #day

It is never too early to encourage long-term savings. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#encourage #long-term #never #savings #too

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#hurt #i #investor #long-term

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#determines #indelible #mark #only #people

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#become #coming #dig #garden #going

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#intelligence #military #military intelligence #terms

The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later. ↗

— Robert Duncan

#clock #determine #formation #glass #later

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open. ↗

— Peter Dawson

#championship #committee #compete #conditions #entry