#though

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#another day #believed #better #bills #borrowing

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China. ↗

— Joseph Needham

#root #science #technology #thought

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#although #bit #charts #chunks #did

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#am #flattering #i #i am #sex

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#building #frail #i #ian #like

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#actor #alfred #artist #bear #capture

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#cause #efficient #even #fruit #great

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#after #al-qaeda #bin #capturing #deputies

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#broken #care #emailed #follow-up #fortnight

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#best #clearly #conclusion #did #finally