#y

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#consumption #finite #growth #impossibility #infinite

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#generally #noises #thought #true

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand. ↗

— Ferdowsi

#could #elephants #helmet #host #jewels

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#came #hitler #i #party #power

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#canada #first #fly #france #geese

I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#i #international #move #pressure #see

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points. ↗

— Nick Ferguson

#always #create #defense #get #great

I'm a very routine-oriented guy. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#i #very

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#behind #come #crap #free #free press