#poses

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. ↗

— John Badham

#about #attention #attention span #great #just

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#beings #designed #emotions #hopes #intended

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#experience #government #guard #liberty #most

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#defensive #gang #i #leader #purposes

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. ↗

— James Buchan

#also #colossal #converted #else #europe

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#assured #become #effort #future #gamble

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. ↗

— Angela Carter

#disposed #man #men #men and women #mythic

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#government #laboring #mocks #people #poor

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health. ↗

— John Clifford

#british #british columbia #columbia #found #health

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed