#mina

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-determination #person

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not? ↗

— Kurt Russell

#methods #off #police #questions #say

West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#came #every #every man #gay #grocery

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. ↗

— Jim Saxton

#act #critical #drastic #eliminate #endangered

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers. ↗

— Otto Schily

#apply #classic #clearly #criminals #criteria

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#consideration #considered #ethical #generally #good

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal. ↗

— Max Schmeling

#almost #back #been #come #considered

I'd rather die my way than live yours. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lena-holoway #self-determination #self-reliance #die

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department. ↗

— Bill Scott

#criminal #crooks #department #did #get

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#academy awards #anyway #awards #best #best picture