#ff

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#developing #different #different meaning #entirely #forgotten

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it. ↗

— Julius Erving

#ball #both #chance #change #committed

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. ↗

— Robert Bork

#differing #educational #egalitarian #inevitably #levels

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#becoming #cereal #change #countries #evident

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. ↗

— Max Born

#dice #differential #equations #fair #god

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#been #carrying #day #different #dog

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#ago #during #equality #forty-one #ideal

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people. ↗

— Brian Bosworth

#completely #different #different people #never #people

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#bankrupt #effort #much #office #our

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#being #expressive #extremely #latin #makes