#eden

It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#administration #agreed #been #both #broader

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary. ↗

— Mike May

#become #goods #sales #sedentary #suffered

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#became #being #clear #credentials #disturbing

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#eden #entire #entire world #every #every time

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#clark #cost #deal #did #eden

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#germany #identity #still #sweden #swedish

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time. ↗

— John Newcombe

#against #court #draw #eight #eric

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#beginning #come #david #early #goes

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#enemy #establishes #even #guard #himself

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #growing #growing up #i #never