#introduction

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#consciousness #dimensions #growth #higher #into

Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored. ↗

— Peter Welch

#ago #banks #big #cards #control

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#good #industrial #industrial revolution #introduction #nutritionally

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#background #country #cross #cross country #england

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ↗

— Plato

#disturbed #important #institutions #introduction #kind

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

I introduced myself thus: “My name is Moscow Moonlove. My friends call me Moss, Cow, Moo, Moon, or Tigerpants. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#introduction #random #funny

Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#introduction #humor

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work. ↗

— James Meade

#before #economic #entitled #had #i