#mina

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating. ↗

— Boss Tweed

#does #electing #get #i #long

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#federal #first #house #hundred #meaningful

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#getting #gravy #like #nomination #than

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. ↗

— Phil Knight

#both #cultural #dominant #emotions #forces

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #concern #concerns #contains #grasped

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. ↗

— Henry Knox

#civil war #done #failure #horror #involved

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#based #cultures #develop #dominant #expect

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#dominant #hears #heavily #i #life

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#governor #gratify #nomination

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children