#gr

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years. ↗

— Neil Peart

#ankles #any #canada #good #growing

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#deserve #greatest #instead #minority #nation

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#been #between #closed #day #great

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#barrier #development #else #forever #go

As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#action #assemblies #congresses #determined #displaying

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#group #individual #more #power #predatory

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#feet #grew #high #high school #i

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up. ↗

— Neil Peart

#athletes #beat #begin #coordination #drum

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#axes #entertain #grind #i #just