#we

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#bad #because #bottom #down #end

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#cohesive #combined #consisting #government #greater

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ↗

— James Callaghan

#experience #firm #however #incapable #intellect

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#because #doing #down #figure #lazy

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#color #difference #expect #go #hear

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#i #laugh #mascara #never #often

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. ↗

— John Calvin

#even #fear #midst #minds #never

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. ↗

— John Calvin

#consider #defect #i #less #than

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#advance #against #between #capability #choice