#quen

In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture. ↗

— Tom Hunter

#centre #change #culture #education #enterprise

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#certain #could #effectively #eloquent #great

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. ↗

— William Falconer

#burst #contrary #extensive #frequently #implies

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. ↗

— Eric Johnston

#bigness #dinosaur #eloquent #good #lesson

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#consequently #descended #distance #ground #had

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. ↗

— Juvenal

#frequently #most #our #vices #virtues

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#attention #avoid #book #consequences #coping

I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#buy #card #cost #dollars #frequently

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#consequence #face #prepared #risk #take

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#consider #country #decision #fight #future