#nin

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men. ↗

— Joe Frazier

#carolina #couple #grew #i #i came

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#comes #confidence #down #enjoy #feminine

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival. ↗

— Jacque Fresco

#control #earth #longer #monetary #our

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#american #american women #burying #feminine #millions

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. ↗

— Brené Brown

#listening #shame #speaking #courage

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land. ↗

— Du Fu

#good #harmed #land #long #morning

In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#activities #activity #borders #businesses #economic

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#attention #employs #gaining #holding #person

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#attempt #card #cards #consular #criminals

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#ii #nine #pilot #stand #war