“A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?” YearsCoursesShareHundredFairsYears AgoFundamentalsComposerFair Share Author:Johannes Rau
“I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.” KnowsYearsMightHappensAbleHappenedFairsYears AgoBlastNot Fair Author:Jackie French
“The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.” WorldWayYearsMadeStatesUseAmericaFallEvilWealthUnitedUnited StatesEconomicModernPercentFairsYears AgoDemocraticAverageCommunismEmployeeEmpiresCeoModern WorldEconomic SystemsNot FairUse To Be Author:Michael Moore
“A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.” YearsFoundCitiesShareFairsYears AgoSevenPopulationVariousKingdomsRepresentativesParliamentFair Share Book:The Public Letters of John Bright Source: The Public Letters of John Bright
“A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.” YearsLittlesTwoImportantInterestingLessonsFairsYears AgoWeatherAwardsImportant LessonsFetchFair Weather Friend Author:Martin Short
“I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsDifferentStoriesUseRememberNextBitsInterestingCitiesHeardCoupleShadowFairsYears AgoSaintChecksThanksThese DaysParisFascinatingTallCastingEndeavourDublinSundials Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.” YearsFourFairsYears AgoSeasonsTwentiesWeatherFour YearsMistakenHandsomeSan FranciscoRainyRainy Season Author:Mark Twain
“Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.” ThinkingWritingTryingYearsI CanCertainLossHairAmountProveFairsYears AgoSentencesStuckTwirlingHair Loss Author:Eric Schlosser
“We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were that attractive. But when people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.” PeopleIfsWantYearsDoeTwoReasonUseUsedHavensAmountKingsFairsYears AgoAttractiveTwo YearsCashTwo Years Ago Author:Warren Buffett
“I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.” IfsThinkingYearsStatesTodayAmericaUnitedUnited StatesFairsYears AgoUnited States Of AmericaDiplomacy Author:Hillary Clinton