#ax

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#asia #being #coming #competition #enter

When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

#aggressiveness #bar #best #best part #celebrate

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. ↗

— John Sununu

#afghanistan #art #art form #back #bad

You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns. ↗

— John Sununu

#any #ask #into #mall #mitt

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. ↗

— John Sununu

#been #business #digital #disrupted #distribution

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. ↗

— John Sununu

#behavior #code #companies #corporate #economic

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice. ↗

— John Surtees

#comes #consistency #driving #everything #get

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#ability #any #effort #good #good thing

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#british #british government #cost #country #curiously

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. ↗

— David Suzuki

#economy #environmental #environmental protection #fragile #hear