#mp

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital. ↗

— Henry George

#assist #capital #employer #force #further

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man? ↗

— W. L. George

#beast #distinguishes #given #glimpse #man

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me. ↗

— Richard Gere

#enormous #had #impact #me #tibetan

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. ↗

— Elbridge Gerry

#army #attempt #bane #destroy #establishment

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#adds #contempt #due #hair #inspired

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#basis #bush #chinese #discovered #everybody

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#away #being #camp #first #first time

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#composer #first #four #i #i remember

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got. ↗

— Stan Getz

#bass #came #electronic #era #even

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#am #competitive #i #i always #i am