#he

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#basic human rights #comfort #concerns #country #dignity

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#always #citizens #did #dreams #ever

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#called #elizabeth #even #just #know

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#america #betrayal #ever #failure #hopes

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#born #free #interesting #learn #limits

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#attention #brought #class #i #mechanics

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#being #concepts #experience #exposed #love

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#courses #during #i #math #mcgill

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#campus #go #i #later #lived

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#countries #dependent #dispel #expose #false