#his

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. ↗

— Dan Brown

#rewriting-history #nature

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#agent #britain #chosen #court #deliver

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#because #block #chance #every #every time

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. ↗

— Alec Waugh

#confident #desires #doubting #himself #his

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building. ↗

— Gerard Way

#action figure #band #building #burning #chemical

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ↗

— Warren Weaver

#getting #ignorance #keep #more #more and more

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics. ↗

— Max Weber

#calling #crumble #face #his #offer

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way. ↗

— Ben Webster

#because #better #check #could #done

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself. ↗

— Michael Welch

#because #doing #free #freeing #his

For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#american #american people #archivist #assure #evolving