Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
CHARLES BABBAGEAnd that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny’s incubation.
BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL -
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK -
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.
BILL GAEDE -
I never really learned photography.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI -
It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.
GEORGE SAUNDERS -
Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.
BOI-1DA -
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.
AGNES BAKER PILGRIM -
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUS -
I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.
TONY CURTIS -
We cannot get the best out of people if we judge them.
ALISON BUTCHER -
Colorado’s collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That’s almost as much as the entire world’s proven oil reserves!
BOB BEAUPREZ -
Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
AL FRANKEN -
Worry and fear did their best to sway her, but she was too preoccupied with truth.
LUCY MARY BALL -
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
KEITH RICHARDS