#mina

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of. ↗

— George Bentham

#botany #career #decided #determination #devote

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#around #began #century #congress #develop

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#am #cause #crime #criminal #die

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#discrimination #sympathetic #very #without

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #been #buy #choose #conscious

I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#could #dominate #enormous #feel #field

One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#attorney #book #country #criminal #defense

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#changing #culture #discrimination #eliminated #forms

The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus. ↗

— Ken Calvert

#criminal #criminal penalties #death #fetus #happened

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view. ↗

— John Howard

#born #coming #contribution #country #discriminatory