#col

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#colonial #decisions #during #fifties #french

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it. ↗

— Barry Switzer

#head #heart #him #his #implant

Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called the anti-beauty quark. Could it be that ugly people now have something tangible to blame? ↗

— Michael Quinion

#large-hadron-collider #ugliness #beauty

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum! ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#art #art history #back #been #college

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arms race #both #both sides #cold #cold war

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arsenals #begun #big #cold #cold war

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#above #action #appeal #ask #bear

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#any #arms #arms race #before #brought

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#parade #satisfying #tremendously #watch

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. ↗

— Karl Rove

#anything #become #called #campaigning #columnist