#nearly

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years. ↗

— Lois Capps

#committed #country #future #future generations #generations

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#brought #conquerors #control #framework #hand

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#am #far #i #i am #i think

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#act #activities #been #best #boy

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#because #bees #belief #creed #dead

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#importance #important #nearly #you

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#comfort #conflicting #fact #find #great

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#brothers #go #homes #istanbul #japan

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #could #exploited #i #much