#trial

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#countries #egypt #general #general motors #groups

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#fortune #good #good fortune #moment #more

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. ↗

— Paul Berg

#chemical #designing #events #far #far less

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#axiom #enforced #experience #industrially #politically

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#characters #designed #formal #inquiry #judges

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#let us #made #see #soil #teach

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#extraterrestrial-life #life #science #universe #wonder

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

#applying #back #began #energy #environment

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. ↗

— James Buchan

#also #colossal #converted #else #europe