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It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#contribute #developing #developing world #done #frankly

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls! ↗

— Emma Thompson

#bits #cut #daughter #dolls #felt

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#back #basic #basic things #certain #democracy

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#destruction #greatest #mass #nations #rogue

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#ancient #culture #games #investigate #just

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#example #for example #greater #health #houses

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#best #could #democrat #i #i think

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#alien #experiencing #fever #industrialists #inhabited

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#encourage #every #highest #his #idea

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#depths #ether #helpless #irresponsible #man