#hr

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#factor #grip #makes #master #own

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#christianity #common #conditioned #correspondence #could

With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#between #concerned #countries #dialogue #earlier

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project. ↗

— Donald Norman

#means #project #throughout #users #working

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#government #guns #importantly #more #ongoing

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#enjoy #film #films #i #i think

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#former #him #i #met #smith

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#first #first time #get #i #right

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#boring #bus #everyone #get #getting