#irs

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#black #blood #cannot #colombia #die

First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#everybody #feel #first #foremost #fun

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ↗

— Aristotle

#courage #first #guarantees #human #human qualities

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #language #making #means #must

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #good #must #ruled #ruler

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#ever #experience #first #green #green bay

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#getting #hurt #losing #me #nearly

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#chosen #circumstance #command #first #flight

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#cause #contrary #earthly #last #longer

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#been #deal #dealing #elements #entropy