#tru

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#struggle #where

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#declines #demand #employment #expenditures #food

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#few #first #football #football players #foreign

I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told. ↗

— Lynndie England

#doing #higher #hold #i #instructed

To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that. ↗

— Lynndie England

#because #been #charged #doing #everything

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true. ↗

— Bela Fleck

#be happy #happy #only #think #true

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#during #give #had #haven #hour

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#failure #forgiven #happy #i #less

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. ↗

— Brian Eno

#constructed #empirically #i #important #lyrics

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#consumerism #convenience #democracy #democratic #domestic