#men

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#aura #been #beginning #closeted #continues

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. ↗

— Orville Wright

#case #crushing #experiences #experiments #gliding

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet. ↗

— Orville Wright

#camera #end #feet #had #height

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines. ↗

— Orville Wright

#did #due #efficient #enthusiastic #experimental

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture. ↗

— Peter Wright

#breathing #equivalent #experiment #find #i

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. ↗

— Richard Wright

#lack #men #much #self-realization #starve

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious! ↗

— Steven Wright

#apartment #furious #i #installed #live

‎Remember officers and soldiers that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of liberty ↗

— General George Washington

#men