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In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. ↗

— Mary Garden

#aviation #considered #dangerous #early #endurance

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#civilization #extraordinary #forward #industrial #industrial revolution

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#brain #content #different #different kinds #etc

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#drums #funk #groove #heavy #like

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#argument #bank #been #cab #get

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#any #commerce #controls #country #industry

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african-american #city #class #concerned #even

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#am #attentive #bigger #changed #circumstances

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#bill #capital #consumed #dollar #dollars

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#amount #appreciation #book #bookstores #changed