#lied

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#armies #army #humanely #local #majority

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#dream #had #holy #i #implied

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#court #dispute #down #election #elevated

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#chief #city #correspondent #eagerly #first

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. ↗

— Jeremiah Wright

#against #color #genocide #government #hiv

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied. ↗

— George Catlin

#am #applied #believe #general #general sense

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it! ↗

— Cat Cora

#been #best #best part #better #bullied

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight. ↗

— Cat Cora

#cheerleader #considered #fairly #gay #growing

Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal. ↗

— Artur Davis

#allied #big #big deal #days #deal