#pera

Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#because #cheap #comedy #comics #got

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#benefits #children #come #dependent #desperate

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#claiming #god #got #how #human

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#catholic #desperation #go #heaven #heretic

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#economics #fell #five #four #go

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#android #because #between #common #component

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#become #co-operative #employer #labor #own

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#become #business #co-operative #commerce #each

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#each #enjoys #individual #individual member #inseparable

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#become #been #co-operation #could #employer