#hem

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous. ↗

— Susan Collins

#ambiguous #been #chemical #dealing #endorsing

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#because #flood #going #home #homes

The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#communities #cram #decided #down #going

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#aside #astronaut #astronauts #could #done

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#area #astronaut #career #chemical #course

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#frail #gertrude #gertrude stein #hemingway #married

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#funny #generation #hemingway #him #historical

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#begun #capable #century #characterised #development

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#crippled #game #handicapped #i #i love

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#direction #doing #i #one thing #pushed