#aimed

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#apostles #beings #claimed #explanation #havoc

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#because #claimed #common #construct #genes

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#action #aimed #changing #courses #designs

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#depend #education #effects #hands #his

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#colleagues #consider #cult #find #had

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#claimed #contracts #especially #ship #show

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party. ↗

— Roger Stone

#conservative #i #large #never #part

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#congressman #could #i #introduce #me

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. ↗

— Anne Edwards

#body #camera #claimed #could #every