#which

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#appeared #known #led #man #obviously

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#arranged #civilization #crucial #depend #elements

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely. ↗

— Mort Sahl

#guys #i #like #lonely #lot

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#get #i #inspiration #stories #unconventional

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. ↗

— John Simon

#decide #democracy #encourages #ignorant #majority

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#behind #burden #casts #journey #like

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#always #argue #day #detest #die

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#alarm #basic #business #difficulty #easily

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#britain #cause #causes #death #dying