#ember

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#allowed #am #because #cannot #done

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#adage #away #been #beginning #challenging

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#aptly #clear #commission #demonstrates #intelligence

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#effective #institutions #international #international institutions #like

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#already #clear #congress #dismantled #loud

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?' ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#class #did #ever #going #i

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#about #became #being #book #died

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. ↗

— Confucius

#i #i do #i remember #i see #know

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ↗

— Confucius

#nothing #remember #unless #wronged #you

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. ↗

— John Thorn

#april #baseball #because #contrast #dared