#upon

I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#emotionally #far #financially #go #i

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#cultivation #gradually #import #lands #left

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#become #called #could #had #heroes

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#diverted #jest #least #most #others

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#food #intellectual #intellectual property #into #lock

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#attention #behind #consciousness #focus #freedom

You get what you concentrate upon... there is no other main rule. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#get #main #other #rule #upon

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#charge #community #continual #his way #interest

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#conducted #government #often #principles #reformers

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#ceases #certainty #doubt #doubts #entirely