#lag

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#atm #before #characters #chinese #competed

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#banner #devotion #flag #give #i

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#back #bobby #book #collected #come

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. ↗

— George McGovern

#how #matter #mistaken #rally #round

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#earthquake #like #plague #prosperity #war

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? ↗

— Maria Montessori

#always #antiquated #behind #conceived #development

All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible. ↗

— Evo Morales

#bolivia #change #control #declared #experience

I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles. ↗

— Vic Morrow

#angles #believe #camera #couple #different

There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#father #five #him #including #people

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. ↗

— Larry Niven

#aids #along #childhood #come #disease