#celebrated

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#chaos #citizens #colonial #french #haiti

After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#america #believed #celebrated #cold #cold war

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#dignity #elegant #every #explored #further

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ↗

— Jared Leto

#around #artists #celebrated #child #clear

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#celebrated #code #ends #jurisprudence #known

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#any #celebrated #celebrity #center #does

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#did #go #hubble #i #investor

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beautiful #celebrated #changing #discovered #first

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. ↗

— Sean Penn

#being ignored #celebrated #discouraged #ignored #lot

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#actually #because #blue #celebrated #different