#mean

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#cause #cubans #done #draft #enough

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#fail #frightened #going #i #mantra

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture. ↗

— Dan Butler

#being #camps #comes #danger #different

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.' ↗

— Eric Cantor

#earn #government #i #mean #money

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#breaking #congress #day #ethical #every

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#cent #city #district #education #fit

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way. ↗

— George Carey

#commitment #great #great pleasure #happened #i

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#meaning-of-life #science #why-we-are-here #beauty

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#democracy #grow #grow up #means #president

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#basic #beneficent #female #goddess #independent