#sole

Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets ↗

— Dean Koontz

#money

La desconfianza, el disimulo, la reserva cortés que cierra el paso al extraño, la ironía, todas, en fin, las oscilaciones psíquicas con que al eludir la mirada ajena nos eludimos a nosotros mismos, son rasgos de gente dominada, que teme y que finge frente al señor. Es revelador que nuestra intimidad jamás aflore de manera natural sin el acicate de la fiesta, el alcohol o la muerte. […] Para salir de sí mismo el siervo necesita saltar barreras, embriagarse, olvidar su condición. Vivir a solas, sin testigos. Solamente en la soledad se atreve a ser. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#nature

We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team. ↗

— J Allard

#before #company #competencies #console #developed

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. ↗

— Tony Benn

#galloping #obsolescence #suffering #today

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. ↗

— William Bennett

#any #assume #child #does #elementary

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#become #branches #case #certain #cultures

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#activities #hearts #purpose #revolutions #sole

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #consist #degree #found #high

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#aspect #bourgeois #contains #economics #however

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#counterterrorism #focus #i #i think #learned