#cas

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#business world #cash #coins #come #everyone

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#allies #ask #before #case #china

In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#almost #brethren #case #christians #established

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#been #being #certain #certain things #delightful

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area. ↗

— James Larkin

#birth #cases #certain #conscience #each

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ancient #bit #blocks #break #break up

I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager. ↗

— Robert Laurent

#bit #differently #felt #gone #got