#sustain

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#expressive #form #give #human #human spirit

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#allocating #among #channeling #corporate #crucial

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#come #does #end #eventually #exciting

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable! ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#case #country #extreme #greece #level

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#best #faculties #force #great #men

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#art #because #catharsis #even #get

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#animal-rights #capitalism #ecology #sustainability #vegan

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence. ↗

— Daniel Dae Kim

#character #create #film #full #great

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#become #category #difficult #getting #more

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#believe #best #care #fiscally #good