#maintained

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such. ↗

— Li Peng

#big #china #community #countries #equal

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#against #alternative #because #done #exercise

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#breeds #equal #excel #level #maintained

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#aristotle #examining #fewer #him #his

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#better #come #contact #did #each

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #balance #bridges #built #debt

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#fixed #i #maintained #means #now

The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#bad #bad stuff #best #better #comic

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#clear #first #improve #knowledge #longer

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #in other words #level #maintained #other