#tract

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences. ↗

— Peter Singer

#be different #best #circumstances #consequences #differences

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#backs #both #competition #entrepreneurs #external

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#attract #been #dress #had #incarnation

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#hall #holding #leading #little #marxist

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me. ↗

— Anna Nicole Smith

#attraction #him #i #just #man

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. ↗

— Frank Stella

#against #become #best #gestures #had

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive. ↗

— Joss Stone

#even #find #man #me #old

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#good #interested #men #obsession #one thing

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #became #before #complex #driven

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #complex #driven #generous #i