#ken

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#been #crisis #economic #economic crisis #financial

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#civilisation #ever #feeble #fire #first

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#civilization #dying #over #said #taken

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#after #age #also #began #during

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#chicken #commitment #committed #difference #eggs

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ↗

— Patricia Neal

#expectations #expects #master #own #teacher

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained. ↗

— Holly Near

#demonstration #i #kent #killed #stage

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#broken #care #emailed #follow-up #fortnight

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#any #civil #civil war #development #direction

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. ↗

— Wayne Newton

#life #man #part #take #taken