#ola

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.' ↗

— Lydia Ko

#actually #ago #away #called #class

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#am #american #american president #coming #different

My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business. ↗

— John Krasinski

#collins #flair #found #had #i

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#force #his #indeed #injury #insult

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#accustomed #beings #controlling #events #having

Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#authorities #happened #human #human rights #liberation

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#consolation #dismal #ears #even #hope

Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#clean energy #east #energy #investments #jobs

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#brilliant #college #continue #could #down

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#ancestors #call #glorious #history #mistakes