#gen

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #commander-in-chief #control #country #defense

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#facts #legends #make #more #reality

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#contribution #differences #each #established #ever

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#formation #frequently #generations #group #groups

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#because #claimed #common #construct #genes

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. ↗

— John Ruskin

#always #effort #intelligent #never #quality

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. ↗

— John Ruskin

#general #great #great mistakes #mistakes #pride

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #business #call #generally #grotesque

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#doubt #full #intelligent #stupid #trouble

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#chief #education #faced #fact #freedom