#vent

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#century #class #cotton #created #frame

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#better #better ways #capital #choose #countries

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#invention #proud #sad #terrorists #used

Man keeps inventing things all the time. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#keeps #man #things #time

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#assume #assumed #care #children #custom

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#down #fantasies #hankering #having #hurrying

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#around #comes #eventually #just #life

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#dramatic #even #events #gradual #granted

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#go #roles #strategy #unconventional

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#contain #got #how #identity #matter