#la

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. ↗

— Elihu Root

#case #circumstances #claims #depend #disputed

An Abel Muranda without his wife and children would be a wandering bachelor without any dignity. He would sleep in caves and feed on wild berries. But no matter how lonely life became, he would never come to a place like this ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. ↗

— Elihu Root

#always #another #country #desire #first

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall. ↗

— Elihu Root

#gone #how #knows #made #many

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. ↗

— Elihu Root

#authority #conduct #conformity #control #counsel

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#being #changed #could #due #everything

Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day. ↗

— David Rose

#allows #cost #data #day #every

Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire. ↗

— Leonard Rose

#house #like #me #playing #sounded

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb. ↗

— Pete Rose

#bats #cobb #get #greater #hits

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#getting #laws #live #management #paralysis