#ties

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. ↗

— Les Brown

#life #limits #only #possibilities #today

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. ↗

— Les Brown

#courage #dreams #experience #his #levels

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#did #i #middle #myself #novelist

Crises are challenges, not calamities. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#challenges #crises

Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions. ↗

— Harry Browne

#choices #communities #decisions #desires #generate

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

#civil #civil liberties #country #existence #foreign

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#also #apart #authorities #group #i

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#equally #habits #minds #novelty #opposite

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth