#heir

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #electric #elimination #gas #i

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#decided #former #great #great hope #had

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#come #downstairs #gutter #idealists #into

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. ↗

— James Shirley

#blossom #dust #just #only #smell

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#drop #people #tell #their #them

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#because #been #defeated #failure #feelings

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#driven #moguls #period #profit #respective

It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#country #due #force #governments #harbor

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#along #detainee #dollars #every #koran