#between

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#civilized #distinction #drawn #office #people

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#biographies #emergence #fully #gap #historical

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#difference #ideas #only #people #superficial

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conflicts #conventional #dealt #disputes #except

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#hip #la #million #new #new york

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#class #dickens #earlier #few #first

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#between #country #fact #first #front

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#after #between #chicago #dante #difference

Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#ago #arabia #between #bin #countries

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#best #between #create #criticism #dream