#var

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart. ↗

— Matthew Green

#heart

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#detective #five #forms #least #sees

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#being #buddhism #causes #central #come

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #human #human beings #inverse #involved

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#avarice #masked

In planning an attack, persons have various roles. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#persons #planning #roles #various

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. ↗

— Plato

#charming #democracy #disorder #dispensing #equality

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#curriculum #kids #like #lurking #many

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#best #capacity #capitalism #destructive #exploitation

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#aid #clauses #dominance #effort #end