#wit

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#creates #enabling #fiscal #form #important

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#cannot #democracy #life #live #organization

A desert is a place without expectation. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#expectation #place #without

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#i #live #me #someone #who

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#corporate #days #false #financed #gets

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#i #important #know #listen #me

Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#am #away #been #chased #disease

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes. ↗

— Klement Gottwald

#any #castle #changes #come #i

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#ideas #lie #minds #only #reach

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#apples #assent #classrooms #confirmed #degree