#gr

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#before #believed #crime #department #every

... the only difference between carnivores and plants is that the latter eat meat through ‘translator’ organisms. Maggots and bacteria ‘pre-chew’ dead animal matter, which plants then absorb as nutrients. So if eating pre-chewed food does not change the fact that a baby is human, why should a plant be any less of a carnivore because it out-sources the digestion of animal protein to organisms of decay? ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#everyone #fact #france #grey #in fact

Cliché: "The MBA changed my life." What it really means: "A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance...three of the things I had before I started the program. ↗

— Sameer Kamat

#education #indian-author #indian-authors #management #mba

Buffy's very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons? ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#between #buffy #child #demons #does

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#fell #great #great stuff #lot #really

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. ↗

— Ernest Gellner

#cars #compares #detroit #great #industry

My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.
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— Jarod Kintz

#adoption #family #grandfathered #grandma #law

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#aside #blood #men #national #once

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#beginning #book #comes #cover #end