#were

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ↗

— Karl Marx

#employed #labor #machines #may #quell

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. ↗

— Joseph R. McCarthy

#communist #communist party #department #five #hand

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#developing #did #done #experiments #first

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#beach #compared #days #did #harmony

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. ↗

— Moliere

#every #every heart #everyone #frank #heart

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#brilliant #characters #including #main #me

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ↗

— Robert Morris

#composers #contemporary #create #daunting #encouraging

We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#certain #darned #governments #had #know

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting. ↗

— John Mortimer

#accountants #alike #children #congress #flower

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#bbc #family #i #inflated #instrumental