#den

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#admitting #before #everything #objective #reality

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#acting #ad #after #audition #fifth

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#charming #friends #had #i #judgment

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' ↗

— James Naismith

#basketball #developed #drop #handkerchief #invention

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#doubt #over #second #second world war #since

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#america #century #change #constant #designed

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us. ↗

— Graham Nash

#anniversary #because #constitutional #constitutional right #emotional

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#became #been #choice #competition #either

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#chief #forward #him #must #party

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#chance #elections #fight #get #i