#thou

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#am #brain #everything #first #horrors

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#anywhere #black #clad #clean #colour

Inflation is taxation without legislation. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#inflation #legislation #taxation #without

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#hand #hidden #market #never #will

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#being #break #country #explain #flattened

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#collaboration #distance #even #field #forces

There is no art without Eros. ↗

— Max Frisch

#eros #without

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#effort #endless #ever #exhausts #greed

Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#always #arrogance #big #big enough #conversely