"... the #liberty of a #democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is #Fascism — ownership of #Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."
~~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-congress-curbing-monopolies
If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
By now, if it had been a dwarf bar, the floor would be sticky with beer, the air would be full of flying quaff, and people would be singing. They’d probably be singing the latest dwarf tune, Gold, Gold, Gold, or one of the old favourites, like Gold, Gold, Gold, or the all-time biggie, Gold, Gold, Gold. (Feet of Clay)
Somewhere on a fetid, fog-bound mud bank on [Vogsphere] there stands, surrounded by the dirty, broken and empty carapaces of the last few jeweled scuttling crabs, a small stone monument which marks the place where, it is thought, the species Vogon Vogonblurtus first arose. On the monument there is carved an arrow which points away, into the fog, under which is inscribed in plain, simple letters the words "The buck stops there."
> 📜 "Cuando piensas en positivo, cosas buenas ocurren. Matt Kemp."
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
-- Oscar Wilde
A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify Him. They would ask Him to dinner, and hear what He had to say, and make fun of it.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Remark (1850-01-12)
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The Daily 5/7/26
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”― William JamesIndonesia consists of more than 17,000 islands, making it the largest archipelagic country.
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