#cent

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#finds #foundations #grows #helps #incident

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ↗

— Edward Teller

#believe #believes #effective #everyone #fact

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#consider #considered #doing #filmmaker #gonna

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so. ↗

— Zane Grey

#make #million #new #officers #took

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

#away #center #confrontation #melted #politics

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#campuses #centers #college #college campuses #crisis

Flight 2039 to Boston is now boarding at gate 14A," a voice announced over the PA system. Nellie sighed. "I love Irish accents." She paused. "And Australian accents. And English accents." A dreamy look came over her face. "Theo had an awesome accent." Dan snorted. "Yeah, there was just that one tiny problem. He turned out to be a two-timing, backstabbing thief. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#backstabbers #dan-cahill #nellie-gomes #the #love

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed. ↗

— Eddie Perez

#i #ninety #people #percent #succeed

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives. ↗

— James W. Black

#brood #central #engineer #father #gave

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that. ↗

— David Kay

#discovered #extensive #far #libyan #more