#tension

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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.


Adam Ferguson


#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.


Margot Fonteyn


#any #art #induces #life #mediocrity

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.


Glenn Frey


#henley #i #just #like #love

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.


Henry Louis Gates


#avert #between #black #class #inevitable

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.


Gottfried Leibniz


#elements #extension #nature #neither #nor

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.


Barry Levinson


#behaviour #best #comfortable #create #enough

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.


Peter Mandelson


#developing #embraces #europe #extension #finds

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.


H. L. Mencken


#attain #cow #enjoys #feeling #function

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.


Natalie Merchant


#achieve #children #having #having children #her

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.


Richard Neal


#cords #dangers #deaths #electrical #extension