#organ

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#coffin #die #funeral #i #my own

Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way. ↗

— Greg Walden

#big #bulk #dealt #fruit #going

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#adapted #been #consider #custom #fixed

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#asking #been #community-based #doing #down

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. ↗

— Carl Jung

#his #individuality #itself #man #mass

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#articles #available #commerce #components #cost

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#life #organized #science #wisdom

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#hamas #honor #obligations #organization #palestinian

The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#denies #developing #financial #financial support #gives