#ago

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#commitment #community #convention #crime #end

We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#ago #called #chandler #couple #developing

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#ago #backwards #becoming #completely #fell

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#cities #enough #largest #make #make up

Acting is happy agony. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#agony #happy

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. ↗

— Kerry King

#eagle #figure #first #got #i

Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage. ↗

— Ed Koch

#allowing #attacked #away #get #i

The World Coming Down tour was around four years ago, and other than the wear and tear we've all sustained in the last four years, nothing much has changed. ↗

— Josh Silver

#around #changed #coming #down #four

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#independence #originality #rebellion #sincerity

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#along #been #bunch #consensus #ever