#prop

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#danger #i #insulted #paris #propped

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anywhere #calling #democracy #dominated #elections

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#bruce #data #i #i do #i write

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#any #death #indeed #islamic #law

I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#allowed #certain #certainly #consider #encouraged

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#could #division #essential #i #men

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#american literature #british #could #english #inappropriate

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#american #been #blake #books #favorite

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#dichotomy #does #false #liberties #people

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#else #finally #gentleman #i #me