#mon

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#dedicate #earning #knows #life #money

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what. ↗

— John Mica

#believe #bought #charged #committee #constitution

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

#competitors #corporate #demonstrate #disadvantage #distinct

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing. ↗

— Mother Jones

#me #needed #rough #someone #teachers

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. ↗

— Philip Kearny

#declaration #enemy #follow #full #i

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them. ↗

— Mary Ann Mobley

#answer #every #get #i #letters

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#completely #covered #crossed #differed #during

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#any #common #dress #effeminate #more

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds." ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#diamonds #middle #moment #own #right