#mer

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#am #i #i am #just #me

Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#american public #been #challenger #convince #inclined

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead! ↗

— James Howard Kunstler

#clown #clowns #community #social-criticism #the-united-states

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#american #american president #english #king #lord

It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#bank #getting #interest #interests #israeli

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character. ↗

— Marguerite Moreau

#character #energy #freedom #gave #go

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong. ↗

— Henry Newbolt

#merciful #princes #proud #strong

I let the American people down. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#american people #down #i #people

As an American citizen, one has to vote. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#american citizen #citizen #vote

It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former. ↗

— Richard Pound

#baseball #brush #carpet #clean #come