#lose

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. ↗

— Bill Gates

#close #dream #even #finishing #pc

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#behind #black #closet #did #dna

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #him

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

I didn't feel particularly close to my father. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#father #feel #i #particularly

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#consequence #cruelty #foe #friend #her

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#catch #certain #close #cut #down

We're getting closer to our nature. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#getting #nature #our

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others. ↗

— John Stossel

#away #bankrupt #close #creative #creative people

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them. ↗

— Boy George

#closet #gay #had #i #knew