#oil

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#corn #ever #first #get #half

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations. ↗

— John Ensign

#american #american taxpayer #cooperate #corruption #decides

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#believe #capital #dedicate #developing #development