#ata

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #becoming #beginning #believed #cast

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Talent

#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us. ↗

— Randall Terry

#country #data #drifting #moving #place

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#anything #away #bribery #cancer #caught

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#carefully #data #decisions #hard #i

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#day #errors #event #every #every day

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#citizens #combatants #conservatives #constitutional #constitutional rights

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#asleep #been #catalog #common #emotional

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion. ↗

— Ron Kind

#army #complaint #corps #dam #data

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. ↗

— Ray Kroc

#advantage #fatal #formal #guarantee #handicap