A Quotes
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“An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.”
“An itinerant selfish gene/ Said 'bodies a- plenty I've seen./ You think you're so clever/ But I'll live for ever./ You're just a survival machine.”
“An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.”
“An MBA doesn’t impress me. A GSD does. GSD = Gets Stuff Done.”
“An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.”
“An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.”
“An MMT understanding allows us to appreciate that there would be no financial impediment for a government building national industries, funding research and development, providing first-class universities and apprenticeship training and the rest. If a nation with its own currency slides into oblivion by closing its manufacturing sector, cutting career public sector jobs and relying on low-paid and precarious service sector jobs for employment creation, then that has little to do with running external deficits, and
everything to do with political choices.”
Source: Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers
“An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.”
“An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.”
“An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.”
“An nice lady in the back...asked what I thought about how we begin to move forward. I think it is up to each individual, which then moves to your family, which moves to your community. Each person, in their own life, let your life be a light for peace, for justice, for all that is good. Just let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.”
“An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.”
“An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.”
Source: Aesop without morals: the famous fables, and a life of Aesop, newly translated and edited by Lloyd W. Daly. Illustrated by Grace Muscarella
“An oak is no respecter of persons.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac
“An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed The oak tree grew so high That now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. "I guess you think you're pretty great," The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. "And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you've grown so tall." "It's not so much that I've grown," said the tree, "It's just that you've stayed so small.”
“An oak tree can make 25 kilograms of glucose every single day. That’s the weight of a small child or a female golden retriever.”
Source: Ingredients The Strange Chemistry of Plants, Poisons and Processed Foods
“An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.”
“An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.”
Source: Being Peace
“An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.”
“An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.”
Source: The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen: Selected Poems
“an oasis of tranquillity in the heart of a nightmare”
Source: London's Burning: Life, Death and Art in the Second World War
“An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling.”
“An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.”
“An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.”
“An oath-the strongest of religious ties.”
Source: 1769-1793
“An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.”
“An obedient wife commands her husband.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.”
“An object at rest can not be stopped!”
“An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.”
“An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.”
“An object in motion tends to stay in motion so if you want to go places and do great things, get moving! Although the desires of your heart may have been lying dormant for a reason or a season, now may be the time to reactivate and infuse them with life.”
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
“An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.”
Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).
“An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.”
Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition
“An object is just an object until you - or someone else - infuses it with meaning and energy.”
“An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.”
“An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.”
“An object may seem static to you and to me, but every bit of it is in continuous movement, shaking, shivering, and rotating.”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.”
“An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.”
“An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.”
Source: Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews
“An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.”
Source: Design as art
“An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.”
“An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.”
“An objective financial mindset promotes a careful and balanced approach to investing, avoiding the emotional biases that can disrupt even the best financial plans. It's a reminder that in finance, as in life, its often prudent to step back, assess the situation calmly, and act based on rational analysis rather than getting swept up in the moment's emotions or trends.”
Source: Wisdom to Be Wealthy: Accelerate to the Top 1% and Create Generational Wealth Using the Family Office Blueprint
“An objective heaven or millenium therefore has existence only in fancy, but a subjective one is already in existence.”
“An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.”
“An objective viewpoint was beyond her; she was single-minded to a fault.”
Source: The Children of Henry VIII