#amp

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cause #certain #commit #detest #example

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#asian #asian countries #been #character #chronic

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#ample #capacity #confident #continue #country

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#before #championship #championship team #like #practice

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne. ↗

— Christian Siriano

#fabulous #going #i #nights #out

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american life #average #average people #create #developing

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#beans #boot #boot camp #came #camp

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting. ↗

— Grace Slick

#easy #obscure #painting #really #rock

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#accountability #arrogant #been #bus #campaign

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#hall #holding #leading #little #marxist