#ate

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. ↗

— Norodom Sihanouk

#asia #called #cambodia #capacity #east

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#culture #decade #existential #how #idea

I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#gone #had #i #life #married

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#elected #i #nominated #run #serve

Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down? ↗

— Kami Garcia

#humor #beauty

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#else #imitate #might #own #program

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes. ↗

— Rick Scott

#businesses #companies #created #frustration #higher

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#failure #first #grandfathers #his #i

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority. ↗

— William H. Seward

#add #claim #disproportionate #majority #minority

I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less. ↗

— Terri Sewell

#far #far less #fundamentally #great #his