#even

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#avoid #china #confrontation #country #current

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked. ↗

— Carolyn McCarthy

#allowed #asked #board #children #common

I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung. ↗

— John McCormack

#because #career #concerts #days #dream

I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#artificial #away #baby #because #been

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#cracked #egg #even #friend #knows

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. ↗

— John Forbes Nash

#better #both #eventually #felt #had

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#audience #because #believed #classmates #could

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. ↗

— John von Neumann

#being #even #know #precise #sense

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think. ↗

— Randy Newman

#anthropology #any #even #evolution #fantastic

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? ↗

— Ted Olson

#another #anyone #argument #couples #diminish