#cult

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#billion #colombia #control #cultivation #distribution

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#cookbooks #culture #find #food #interesting

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#affected #almost #anglo #background #backgrounds

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#noble #rare #things

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world. ↗

— Angelo Scola

#church #determine #difficult #does #fault

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#barren #beneath #difficult #exists #immediately

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#again #anything #because #believe #difficult

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#difficult #even #harder #making #super

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you. ↗

— Shakira

#because #coexist #difficulty #elements #i

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#compatible #cultures #democracy #germany #important