#api

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#american #because #being #either #europe

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#earth #escaping #i #longer #singing

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#available #canada #capital #develop #huge

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#been #behaviour #beyond #capitalism #created

When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#capitol #constitution #dome #form #jump

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#acting #also #apparently #argue #behalf

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#capitalism #free #free market #generations #increasingly

My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths. ↗

— Katie Price

#get #go #i #interview #into

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#being #bombed #britain #burned #democracy

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ↗

— Quintilian

#changes #effect #great #great changes #herself