#irs

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#adult #basic #children #even #fifteen

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#booed #couple #court #first #i

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one. ↗

— Diana Krall

#before #definite #departure #did #elvis

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#city #easy #first #forget #got

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#back #berlin #black #defence #defensive

The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did. ↗

— John Krasinski

#asked #decided #did #ever #first

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole. ↗

— Peter Krause

#foremost #hurts #individual #man #mistake

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#around #change #circumstances #creatively #environment

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#ambitious #contract #covering #devious #discovery

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#bad guy #bomb #captured #case #choice