#trial

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #century #conceded #creating #demand

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#character #comes #doing #fire #front

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. ↗

— Jean Racine

#before #behooves #everything #make #person

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you? ↗

— Scott Reed

#bliss #came #enter #garden #passed

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#bring #debate #get #industrial #informed

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#ever #important #industrial #more #science

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. ↗

— James Madison

#capital #capital punishment #entire #fair #full

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#been #fire #i #learn #mistakes

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cannot #dangerous #examined #light #mortal