#loa

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#ambition #cloak #employed #exploitation #injustice

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#cheek #cloak #give #go #injustice

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#buildings #consumption #costs #efficiency #efficient

I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#back #encourages #extend #further #go

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ↗

— William Blackstone

#been #bulwark #defense #england #ever

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. ↗

— William Blake

#better #fun #happiness #i #i love

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#boatload #days #did #equipment #first

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. ↗

— David Duchovny

#day #discipline #down #every #every single day

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#another way #banks #creating #funds #go

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#around #aside #big #colleges #gas