#nations

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#charitable #foreign #foreign nations #i #leave

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#below #degrees #egypt #half #income

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#approaching #argued #assassinations #centuries #consensus

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#made #majority #nature #nominations #republican

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#act #custom #generally #inclinations #ingrained

It's simpler to believe in a miracle. ↗

— William Golding

#explanations #miracles #religion #religion

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#get #i #satisfied #school #tv

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#certain #every #marked #nations #others

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#imaginations #manipulative #people #spark #trying

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#cooperation #effective #instrument #international #international cooperation