#grant

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. ↗

— Henry Adams

#darwin #evidence #evolution #grant #president

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#anybody #because #borrowed #grant #how

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#day #education #goes #granted #i

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#disarming #flagrant #iraq #legal #resolutions

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#beginning #black #class #companies #comprise

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#allows #block #communities #community #construct

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#consider #contradict #granted #nor #read

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. ↗

— George P. Baker

#best #character #ending #enough #farce

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact