#api

During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#during #engineering #experience #forgot #gaining

We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#bringing #capital #capital investment #carolina #competitive

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#america #believe #capitalism #country #everybody

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#cultural #getting #historical #itself #more

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#capital #date #death #further #higher

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appealing #capitol #capitol hill #find #hill

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. ↗

— George Schultz

#bargaining #capitulation #cast #euphemism #negotiations

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #capitol #chairman #committee #concerns

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#civilization #creates #educates #inevitably #interest