#ago

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country. ↗

— John Spratt

#country #dumps #end #guard #hostilities

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion. ↗

— John Spratt

#ago #billion #clinton #clinton administration #country

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio. ↗

— Robert Stack

#any #called #doing #exist #grew

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#appearance #between #capital #deceptive #labor

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#another #another man #captures #capturing #continues

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#daine #dragon #kitten #immortality

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich. ↗

— Ben Stein

#being #condemned #eu #glee #israel

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago. ↗

— Ben Stein

#anticipated #days #fast #few #getting

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#disappeared #earth #ever #face #quarrelsome