#in

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#destiny #european #european union #join #kosovo

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#five #hours #increased #just #percent

The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#capable #demonstrating #depend #independence #kosovo

A painting that is well composed is half finished. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#composed #finished #half #painting #well

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black. ↗

— Michelle Alexander

#injustice #jim-crow #racism #age

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is. ↗

— Bono

#money #out #really #selling #something

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. ↗

— Bono

#brought #coal #cost #environment #extraction

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#faults #first #may #motor #motor car

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#between #defined #difference #expectations #our

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress. ↗

— Mary Bono

#asking #attempts #authority #cease #clear