#prop

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#classed #continent #convey #every #face

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched. ↗

— David Suzuki

#biological #chemical #geological #globe #left

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#ago #american #conducting #conductor #doing

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift. ↗

— King Abdullah II

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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#how #i #i am #obsessed #perceived